Sea-level rise due to climate change is poised to shift the way that rivers naturally chart their path to the shoreline. The nature of that change will depend on both the rate of sea-level rise and ...

The Mississippi River is going to change course (avulse) to the Atchafalaya at the Old River Control Complex (ORCC) above ...

Since the earliest civilizations, humans have used rivers to sustain us; they have provided an essential source of food and water, and a means of relatively easy transport. However, changes in rivers ...

The $700,000 award will be used to monitor changes in river movement and the fish population that impact the infrastructure and economy of a village in southwest Alaska.

River avulsions -- catastrophic floods triggered when a river charts a new path to the sea -- could occur more frequently on rivers as sea levels rises. Sea-level rise due to climate change is poised ...