By Naina Rao Rivers are known to naturally meander, change courses, braid and branch. But as rising temperatures melt ...

The Nile RIver and its Delta, which together account for 99% of Egypt's population and all of its agriculture. The floodplains and delta of the Nile are very productive due to the water, sediment and ...

AMHERST, Mass. — An international team of researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has tracked changes in more than 114,000 rivers in High-mountain Asia over a 15-year period. The ...

Rivers have been instrumental in shaping India’s geography, agriculture, culture and economy. Some of India’s most important ...

A coalition of environmental organizations is calling on international financial institutions, including the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, to reexamine the utility of financing hydropower ...

Throughout human history, civilisations have been named after the rivers along which they flourished: Indus Valley, Nile, Tigris-Euphrates. Many of these cultures later collapsed, partly because they ...

Bangladesh has just approved one of the largest river engineering projects its history: the Padma Barrage, a vast river-control project intended to restore water in the country’s drought-prone ...