As the fifth-longest river and the most sediment-laden river in the world, the Yellow River in China supports agriculture and human survival, irrigating 13% of the nation’s crops with just 3% of the ...

The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) rivers carry a massive sediment load that feeds the world’s largest depositional system: the GBM megadelta. The mass of sediment transported annually by the GBM ...

Lake Powell, an iconic centerpiece of the Colorado River Basin and the second-largest reservoir in the United States, is facing an escalating crisis as decades of sediment buildup threaten its future.

Just as water moves through a river, rivers themselves move across the landscape. They carve valleys and canyons, create floodplains and deltas, and transport sediment from the uplands to the ocean.

Picture an hourglass lying on its side, the top resting in the Mississippi River to capture the sands of time floating downstream from the Midwest. The sand flows through the neck of the hourglass and ...

High Mountain Asia (HMA), which refers to the Tibetan Plateau and the surrounding high Asian mountains, is home to the world’s third-largest ice reservoir and the origin of many of Asia’s large rivers ...

Tucked between South Dakota and Nebraska is a whole lot of what could be Louisiana. A growing mountain’s worth of Missouri River silt and sand that would have flowed to the Mississippi River and down ...

The improvement in the water quality of Lake Erie has been trumpeted as one of the great environmental success stories. Since the 1960s, the lake has become less prone to eutrophication, water clarity ...

Tucked between South Dakota and Nebraska is a whole lot of what could be Louisiana. A growing mountain's worth of Missouri River silt and sand that would have flowed to the Mississippi River and down ...