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River Explorations

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Phys.org

Why rivers matter for the global carbon cycle

3 min · Jan 19th · In a new journal article, EPFL professor Tom Battin reviews our current understanding of carbon fluxes in the world's river networks. He demonstrates their central role in the global carbon cycle and… · Shared by 90, including Jane
climate crisis
nature
The Guardian

Diversity returns to Lakeland stream after restoration puts its bends back

3 min · 2022-12-26 · Nature ‘in charge again’ at Swindale Beck for first time in 200 years as award-winning conservation project bears fruit · Shared by 98, including Jane, Svein Tveitdal
nature
High Country News

Alaska’s Arctic waterways are turning orange, threatening drinking water

4 min · 2022-12-13 · Scientists think climate change may be the culprit. · Shared by 98, including David Wallace-Wells, Jane
climate crisis
hakai.org

The Demon River | Hakai Institute

2022-11-16 · An extraordinary flood on British Columbia's Nicola River laid waste to homes and lives—and the idea that we can control nature. · Shared by 184, including Jane, Colin Wright
outdoors
nature
The Washington Post

Drought threatens Colorado River with ‘complete doomsday scenario', officials say

2022-12-01 · A once-unfathomable scenario — Lake Powell dropping to historic lows and shutting down power generators that serve millions — could start as soon as July.  · Shared by 113, including Jonathan Overpeck, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Andrew Dessler, Jane, Deborah Blum, @mcgeoff@mastodon.social, Svein Tveitdal
climate crisis
The New York Times

Climate Change Is Ravaging the Colorado River. There’s a Model to Avert the Worst.

8 min · 2022-09-05 · Success in the Yakima River Basin in Washington holds lessons for the seven states at war over water in the American West. · Shared by 56, including Jane, Jonathan Overpeck
climate crisis
The Guardian

Rivers brought me heart-shattering loss

6 min · 2022-08-09 · Author Amy Jane Beer’s fascination with these elemental environments was halted by tragedy, but with time she has returned to find a deep sense of connection · Shared by 50, including Jane
nature
The Guardian

Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers

19+ min · 2022-08-04 · The long read: A tide of effluent, broken laws and ruthless cuts is devastating the nations’ waterways. An academic and a detective have dredged up the truth of how it was allowed to happen – but will… · Shared by 27, including Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Dorothy Bishop, Jane, Robert Macfarlane
Hakai Magazine

The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi

20+ min · 2022-07-12 · Our long history of constraining the river through levees has led to massive land loss in its delta. Can we engineer our way out? And at what cost? · Shared by 1304, including Jane, Colin Wright
politics
serc.carleton.edu

Flume – Low head dam installation effects on coarse sediment transport, medium shot

1 min · 2022-06-27 · Flume – Low head dam installation effects on coarse sediment transport, medium shot To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Flume… · Shared by 7, including StanChan, Jane
Popular Science

Some rivers suddenly change course, and we may finally know why

4 min · 2022-05-26 · With enough flooding and other edits to a landscape, rivers may abruptly chart new, more favorable paths, known as avulsions. · Shared by 607, including Jane, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
nature
Most highlighted
But when they do, scientists who study rivers use a special term: an avulsion. Avulsions are rare, but as the Koshi River disaster showed, the consequences can be catastrophic.
disappearingwest.org

Disappearing Rivers

2022-03-29 · The rivers of the American West have shaped the pattern of human development across the region. In turn, human activities are rapidly changing the rivers that sustain them. Today, nearly half - 49% -… · Shared by 51, including Jane
nature
NPR

Reporter's Notebook: Fall On A River In The Adirondacks

2 min · 2021-09-27 · NPR's Brian Mann sends us an audio postcard from a canoe trip down a wild river in New York, in search of autumn color. · Shared by 75, including Jane
The Washington Post

Opinion | America’s rivers need help. I should know — I swam in 108 of them this summer.

2021-10-03 · Competing in a fun, absurd challenge revealed plenty of natural beauty, but way too much that was just disgusting. · Shared by 4, including Jane
Orion Magazine

A River Reawakened

8 min · 2021-09-22 · In this web exclusive, a filmmaker witnesses ten years of rewilding Washington State's Elwha watershed. · Shared by 88, including Liv 😷 💙, Jane, Robert Macfarlane
environment
The New York Times

A Journey Along the River That Separates Russia From China

6 min · 2021-09-24 · As he neared 80, the travel writer Colin Thubron took a trip along the 10th longest river in the world, chronicled in “The Amur River.” · Shared by 77, including Jane
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