UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — New analysis of data from the Curiosity rover reveals that much of the craters on Mars today could have once been habitable rivers. “We’re finding evidence that Mars was likely ...

The ice-covered season plays an important role in the development of river channels, a new study shows. The spatial variability of sediment transport and differences in depositional and erosional ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is often argued that the changes in discharge and velocity that accompany flow regulation for hydro-electric power generation lead to a significant increase in bank erosion and changes in the ...

Researchers in Pennsylvania have uncovered evidence of an obsolete river network on Mars. Though the rivers no longer remain, how they once moved water across the Red Planet could guide us toward ...

River deltas, the fans of sediment sweeping out from the mouths of rivers, are gaining ground. Globally, delta land area increased by 54 square kilometers per year from 1985 to 2015, scientists report ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Nearly 50,000 years ago, a megaflood may have washed across the area that is now Idaho, carving a ...

It's anyone's guess as to when the Minnesota River will stop growing. Stretches of its eastern bend, not far from Mankato, have more than doubled in size since the 1940s. Several homes that were built ...

Logging activity a century ago on a Washington river caused the bedrock to erode, creating a new terrace. The authors believe such large-scale, human-caused erosion may be widespread. Geologic time is ...

In recent years, the role of soil erosion on terrestrial carbon sequestration had been the focus of a growing number of studies. However, relatively little attention has been paid so far to the role ...