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 ...

From rugged mountain peaks to sandy beaches, erosion is constantly at work reshaping the Earth’s surface. Driven by water, ...

Rivers create landforms, foster biodiversity, and provide sustenance to humanity; however, little attention is paid to their ...

Long after tectonic plate movement has created mountains, forces such as weather and river erosion can continue to shape a landscape. One such landscape is the Colorado Plateau, which spans more than ...

Homolata Borah is a Research Associate, Disaster Research Programme and is with the Center for the Study Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is actively involved in the research ...

New analysis of data from the Curiosity rover reveals that much of the craters on Mars today could have once been habitable rivers. New analysis of data from the Curiosity rover reveals that much of ...

Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are ones forced to flee their homes due to war, armed conflict, ethnic/religious persecution, and various forms of natural disasters. Lately, the impacts of climate ...

The best way to understand how local rivers work is to get out and see for yourself. The Curly Burn river in Limavady is a great example. Processes in the river As rivers flow towards the sea, they ...

Do biota affect landscape form and evolution? One way to think about this question is to imagine a very high-resolution topographic map of the Earth (for example, 1 m-2 data density) from which all ...