River

Electric Pilot Boat: Environmentally Friendly and Safe

The vessel remains stable in the water even in rough seas and is relatively light, thus reducing fuel consumption. The hull contains a flexible and compact…

River ice reveals new twist on Arctic melt

Lesack is the lead author on Local spring warming drives earlier river-ice breakup in a large Arctic delta. Published recently in Geophysical Research Letters,…

Glaciers, Streamflow Changes Are Focus of New Columbia River Study

As the Earth warms, experts know the Columbia will change – they just don't know how much or when.University of Washington environmental engineers are…

CSI-type study identifies snakehead

But they say their discovery that the half-metre-long, 3.7-kg snakehead fished out of Burnaby Central Park’s lagoon last December was a blotched snakehead, or…

Mountaintop Mining Pollution Has Distinct Isotopic Fingerprint

The distinctive chemistries of sulfur, carbon and strontium provide scientists with new, more accurate ways to track pollution from mountaintop mining sites…

Geochemical ‘fingerprints’ leave evidence that megafloods eroded steep gorge

For the first time, scientists have direct geochemical evidence that the 150-mile long gorge, possibly the world’s deepest, was the conduit by which megafloods…

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