For more than a century, the Green River's course through the Uinta Mountains in Utah's northeast has been a geological mystery, seemingly defying physics. Rivers carve their paths by flowing downhill ...

A satellite built to measure Earth’s water has started answering a different kind of question. “What’s the shape of water?” ...

How do rivers choose their path? Why do some rivers form single channels, while others divide into many threads? The questions may sound simple, but they are plagued by dynamic and complex forces that ...

Learn more about the Green River and how a lithospheric drip may have led to the river flowing 'uphill.' ...

Pictured is a shallow reef flat channel on the atoll of Tetiaroa, located north of Tahiti in the Society Islands. MIT researchers have found evidence that island rivers may carve out paths in ...

Dalhousie researchers have revealed how Arctic aquifers—permeable layers of the ground that store and transmit water to rivers, lakes and terrestrial ecosystems—behave today and how these vital ...

How do rivers choose their paths? Why do some rivers form single channels, while others divide into many threads? The questions may sound simple, but they are plagued by dynamic and complex forces ...