Western Washington has been hit by severe flooding after days of relentless rain inundated towns and forced evacuations. While heavy rain is common in the Pacific Northwest, officials and scientists ...

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 ...

In the summer of 2019, ecologist Patrick Sullivan and a Super Cub plane pilot navigated over the narrow valleys of the Brooks Range in northern Alaska, winding toward the remote headwaters of the ...

Martha Brae River in Falmouth, Trelawny parish, Jamaica. Beautiful lush green natural canopy foliage landscape. Romantic nature setting, famous for rafting. Popular tourist attraction/ excursion. As ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Ranjan Panda — social ecologist, journalist and researcher — is popularly known as the Waterman of Odisha. Panda highlights the invisible and ...

When our analysis showed that what Westerners call a “hill” would generally qualify as a “mountain” in the rest of the country, many of you pleaded with us to do the same thing for water. Let’s see ...

A simple scaling law brings order to the chaos of flowing water, rock, and sediment. New findings have extended the law even further. A river has my heart. It’s not the austere, black Thames winding ...

Nevada’s rivers and lakes are more than lines on a map or conduits for water. They are economic engines, natural infrastructure, and cultural touchstones whose full benefits rarely appear in budgets ...

When you think about heat waves, you might picture sweltering cities, shimmering asphalt and unbearable summer afternoons. These heat waves dominate the headlines because we feel them directly. Rivers ...