Rivers are an important part of our everyday lives. They provide water for drinking and irrigation and transport for trade and travel. They are used to generate electric power for energy and act as ...

Floods threaten more people globally than any other natural hazard. Nature offers a solution: Trees. A region in Germany's east has been training local forests to absorb more water. We have been ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – This summer’s flooding was a stark reminder of the power of water. Now, researchers at Washington University want to see how that power may reshape underwater landscapes in a future ...

The river that one white explorer named after his own ship in 1792 — the Columbia — has been called many things in many languages, but perhaps the simplest, broadest name is also the truest: Big River ...

Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers report in Nature Geoscience. The team used radio echo sounding, a technique ...

A groundbreaking study published in Nature Geoscience has revealed a previously unknown topography beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, potentially offering new insights into the region’s ice flow ...