The water pressure of a river can cut deep into a riverbed. Sediments from the riverbed are carried downstream, creating a deep, narrow channel. This process, known as downcutting, represents the ...

Rivers are Earth’s arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from the mountains to the sea. Some rivers carve out a single pathway, while ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Rivers are Earth’s arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from the mountains to the sea. Some rivers carve out a ...

River-channel migration is a key geological process that strongly influences society and the environment — it determines the viability of human settlements, infrastructure and ecology on the bank, and ...

It’s mid-morning at an oxbow on the Mendenhall River, and signs of change are all around. A handful of spruce trees, felled by river erosion, sit awash in the gray-green rush. Silty ledges, ...

Scientists think they have figured out why Mount Everest, known as Chomolungma in Tibet and Sagarmatha in Nepal, stands out so starkly from the rest of the peaks in the Himalayas. According to new ...

Charlotte Milne receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Public Scholars Initiative at UBC. The research mentioned in this article received funding ...

As high water recedes, communities on the coast and along the lower Kuskokwim River are taking stock of flood damage and erosion after two windy storms in quick succession filled rivers and streams ...

Hartford and West Lebanon's Wilder Dam is one of three that could soon be operated as run-of-river facilities under proposed conditions for a new license. Three major hydroelectric dams on the ...