Editor’s Note: A previous version of this story inaccurately reported that native trout species had returned to the channel. While Colorado Parks and Wildlife has reported recovery of brown trout and ...

River channel belts are wide corridors created by the movement of a river. The interactive map developed by Nyberg and colleagues shows the global distribution of river channel belt extents. The ...

As politicians argue over just how much land the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion could build along a rapidly sinking coast, geologist Alex Kolker regularly makes the 65-mile drive down from New ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – A section of the Cuyahoga River Old Channel is slated to be dredged starting next year to remove toxins that have been buried in sediment there for several decades. The project, led ...

CHICO — For decades, Sacramento River chinook salmon have been at a severe disadvantage when trying to spawn and raise their young in the river’s northernmost area. These days, though, the fish are in ...

Rivers are not fixed in place but rather tend to shift across the landscape. As they travel, they sow the seeds for diverse and productive ecosystems—forests, wetlands and floodplains—to emerge and ...