The Chesapeake Bay Program and its partners, including the University of Michigan, released information today on the state of the 2021 Chesapeake Bay "dead zone." While last year's dead zone was the second smallest observed ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2021
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Large reservoirs in Southeastern Brazil can double river flow if the reservoirs are full, compared with empty reservoirs, according to a new study published in the journal Energy, from researchers at the International Institute ...
Environment
Sep 21, 2021
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For more than two decades, Duane Chapman, a fish biologist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS), has been chasing the spread of invasive carp, a family of fish originally from Europe and Asia, which individually ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 17, 2021
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In "Atchafalaya," John McPhee's essay in the 1989 book "The Control of Nature," the author chronicles efforts by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to prevent the Atchafalaya River from changing the course of the Mississippi ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 1, 2021
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After good summer rains, the dams that supply water to Johannesburg and much of South Africa's economic heartland are full. This, then, is the time to start worrying about water supplies.
Environment
May 25, 2021
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Juvenile salmon migrating to the sea in the Sacramento River face a gauntlet of hazards in an environment drastically modified by humans, especially with respect to historical patterns of stream flow. Many studies have shown ...
Plants & Animals
May 20, 2021
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For millions of years, the Murray River has flowed from the Australian Alps across the inland plains, winding through South Australia before emptying into the ocean. But the final leg of its journey once looked vastly different.
Earth Sciences
May 6, 2020
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A team of researchers at Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera of the Spanish National research Council (ICTJA-CSIC) has analysed the seismic signals generated by the variations in water flow of the Aragón river due to ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 11, 2019
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Mars may seem to be an alien world, but many of its features look eerily familiar—such as this ancient, dried-up river system that stretches out for nearly 700 kilometres across the surface, making it one of the longest ...
Space Exploration
Oct 10, 2019
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When it comes to global warming's one-two punch of inundation and drought, the presence of too much water has had the most impact on U.S. agriculture this year, with farmers across the Midwest swamped by flooding throughout ...
Environment
Aug 23, 2019
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