Meandering rivers existed before land plants appeared, Stanford study finds

For generations, geologists have taught a simple story about the history of rivers. Before plants spread across the ...
CNN

Scientists mapped the world’s rivers over 35 years. They found shocking changes

The nearly 3 million rivers that weave across the world are experiencing rapid and surprising changes, with potentially drastic implications for everything from drinking water supplies to flood risks, ...
Scientific American

The Formation of Glacial Rivers

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...
news.ucsb.edu

Rivers choose their path based on erosion — a discovery that could transform flood planning and restoration

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 ...
The Conversation

As climate change warms rivers, they are running out of breath – and so could the plants and animals they harbor

As climate change warms rivers, they are losing dissolved oxygen from their water. This process, which is called deoxygenation, was already known to be occurring in large bodies of water, like oceans ...
New Scientist

Why rivers are important for everything from biodiversity to wellbeing

This article is part of New Scientist and the i’s joint campaign, Save Britain’s Rivers. The year-long collaboration will reveal what’s happening to the UK’s rivers and how to restore them through a ...