As rivers flow towards the sea, they impact the landscape through which they pass. Firstly, they cause erosion of both the riverbed and its banks, dislodging stones and other material. Secondly, they ...

It’s mid-morning at an oxbow on the Mendenhall River, and signs of change are all around. A handful of spruce trees, felled by river erosion, sit awash in the gray-green rush. Silty ledges, ...

With steep walls and deep valleys, the Grand Canyon in the western United States or the massive gorges that saw through the margins of the Tibetan Plateau are some of the most awesome and spectacular ...

Parts of Southern University's campus in Baton Rouge are slowly eroding into the Mississippi River, but state and federal leaders said Wednesday they have a plan to stop it. The collapsing land has ...

The Missouri River drains an area of 530,000 square miles and extends over one-sixth of the conterminous United States. The Missouri River originates at the confluence of the Gallatin, Jefferson, and ...

Greg Kim is a news reporter for KYUK in Bethel, Alaska. Katie Basile is a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker in Bethel. Gabby Hiestand Salgado is an archivist and filmmaker in Bethel. This ...

The erosion has progressed at an accelerated rate and has reached other rivers, threatening a national highway and Indigenous communities. Studies commissioned by the Ecuadoran government call for ...

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 ...

This video explores the four key river erosion processes of hydraulic action, abrasion, attrition and solution. Each erosion process wears away the river’s bed and banks. Soft rocks erode more quickly ...