"Understanding and predicting avulsions has never been more critical." Researchers use satellite technology to predict ...

The first type are called archaeological maps which show how ancient ... previous path (see this timelapse of river movement in the Amazon from Google Earth Engine). Around 5000 BCE, Mesopotamia ...

Insufficient rainfall in 2023-2024 has taken a toll on South America’s rivers and groundwater and upended daily life in ...

A new computational method developed by researchers at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London uses an ...

Science News sponsorship position. The researchers developed a computer algorithm that highlighted where on a map an avulsed river might go, factoring in the steepness of the terrain and momentum ...

Record dry conditions in South America have led to wildfires, power cuts and water rationing. The world’s largest river ...

The original building was removed due to concerns it would be swept into the Blue Earth River. The area near the building had suffered significant erosion. Blue Earth County had presented the ...

Mount Everest (also known as Chomolungma or Sagarmāthā) is famously the highest mountain in the Himalayas and indeed on Earth ...

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg toured Western North Carolina for the first time since the remnants of Hurricane ...

The original building was demolished before it fell into the Blue Earth River during severe flooding which swept around the dam in June. The temporary location sports original decor from the ...

Ancient rainstorms may have sculpted the red planet, similar to the monsoon rains that helped shape the Southwest’s landscape ...

The stone tower that gave this place its name was nearly a half billion years in the making — heated and thrust upward from deep in the Earth, then carved and eroded by wind and water.