A tidal wave of irony washed over Colorado Wednesday when the artist Christo canceled his long-delayed plan to drape fabric over the Arkansas River, saying he didn’t want to complete the project on ...

For the past few years, local nonprofits, municipalities and a number of other agencies have been engaged in an effort to enhance coordination and planning in the Colorado River corridor. Called the ...

As rivers flow towards the sea, they impact the landscape through which they pass. Firstly, they cause erosion of both the riverbed and its banks, dislodging stones and other material. Secondly, they ...

Recently, 20 private developers signaled their interest in partnering with Fort Wayne. They want to work with the city to turn the North River property into a major redevelopment project. This level ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — For University of Illinois river researchers, new insight into river cutoffs was a case of being in the right place at the right time. Geography professor Bruce Rhoads and geology ...

“The Chicago River is the city’s most neglected natural resource,” wrote urban planner Robert Cassidy in 1979 in Chicago magazine. “It is overshadowed by Lake Michigan, disdained by environmentalists ...

“How can we restrain ourselves from loving places to death?” asks Joe Moll, executive director of the McKenzie River Trust. “How can you have a big natural area, really close to town, that becomes ...

Researcher uncovers why most of the records left by ancient rivers preserve commonplace processes. The Torridon sandstone in northwestern Scotland preserves six kilometers of river sediment from ...

Oceanography, Vol. 30, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE ON Sedimentary Processes Building a Tropical Delta Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: The Mekong System (SEPTEMBER 2017), pp. 22-33 (12 pages) ABSTRACT.

The process and impact of rejuvenation is explored through the use of specific examples along with detailed graphics to explain the fluvial processes of erosion, transportation and deposition. ABC ...

At 4,130 miles (6,650 km) long, the Nile in Africa is the longest river in the world. Some people consider the Amazon in South America to be longer. This is because the many hundreds of channels that ...