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It turns out that rivers choose their path based on erosion – a discovery that could transform flood planning and restoration.
It is in no one’s interest to militarise the Arctic but thanks to something of an arms race heating up between the US, Russia ...
Russian forces are gathering near a river that shields Pokrovsk. Ten Ukrainian brigades may soon withdraw from the fortress city.
Rivers are Earth's arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from ...
The remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across East Antarctica have been discovered—and ...
There are a bunch of rivers and brooks in Moscow that have been moved underground and some of them are really long.
Rebuilding Ukraine’s health infrastructure is vital but hindered by plethora of factors including ongoing conflict, resources shortages, and political obstacles.
All together, that makes a wonderful, very human, mess. Back in the 1960s, the United States Geological Survey stated: “There ...
A new gudgeon fish species, Gobio uralensis, was discovered in the Ural River. This ‘naked’ fish has a silvery belly and thrives in Russian mountain streams.
Several villages in the Chelyabinsk and Bashkortostan regions of Russia were cut off from transport links as melting ice caused river levels to rise and burst their banks.
Tim Marshall’s persuasive thesis in his book, “Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World,” is that geography is destiny, certainly when it comes to nations. If we are ...