River

Pythons, lionfish and now willow invade Florida's waterways

Biologists at the University of Central Florida recently completed a study that shows this slender tree once used by Native Americans for medicinal purposes,…

Post-Sandy Sewage

“Technically, you can’t identify raw sewage from a satellite, but you can find river discharge that you suspect has raw sewage,” said Matthew Oliver, assistant…

After dam removal, sediment muddies the water

The dismantling of two large dams on the Elwha River in Washington began in September of last year and has significantly increased this river cloudiness, known…

A Mississippi river diversion helped build Louisiana wetlands, Penn geologists find

But the levees have also contributed to the loss of Louisiana's wetlands. By holding in floodwaters, they prevent sediment from flowing into the watershed and…

Crews complete first block of North America’s most advanced neutrino experiment

The NuMI Off-Axis Neutrino Appearance experiment – NOvA for short – will study the properties of neutrinos, such as their masses, and investigate whether they…

Human Impact Felt on Black Sea Long Before Industrial Era

In the delta’s early stages of development, the river deposited its sediment within a protected bay. As the delta expanded onto the Black Sea shelf in the late…

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