The world’s deepest river: How the Congo reaches depths equal to a 70-storey building

The Congo River, the world's deepest, flows through six West-Central African nations, forming a vast basin supporting rich biodiversity and 75 million people. This vital river, which crosses the ...
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Hells Canyon, The Deepest River Gorge In The US, Was Created Incredibly Recently

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China is building the world’s most powerful hydropower system deep in the Himalayas. It remains shrouded in secrecy

Thousands of miles from China’s populous coastline, a sharp bend in a remote Himalayan river is set to become the centerpiece of one of the country’s most ambitious – and controversial – ...
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Hells Canyon, the deepest gorge in the U.S., is surprisingly young

Hells Canyon, the deepest river gorge in the United States, likely got rapidly carved 2.1 million years ago when a shifting landscape in Idaho caused a giant lake to start overflowing. That's ...