- 1. Climate Change is Altering Nitrogen Composition in Arctic Rivers ...
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- ... water quality impacts of global warming. Climate change is starving the Arctic Ocean of essential nutrients, with the region's six largest rivers now delivering far less of the type of nitrogen that marin ...
- Created on 16 September 2025
- 2. The Rise of Plant Life Changed How Rivers Move, Study Shows ...
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- Research reveals that unvegetated meandering rivers can geologically masquerade as braided rivers, suggesting they were much more common in the first 90 percent of Earth’s history than previously thought. ...
- Created on 22 August 2025
- 3. Years After an Earthquake, Rivers Still Carry the Mountains Downstream ...
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- On May 12, 2008, the magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake shook central China, its destructive tremors spreading from the flank of the Longmen Shan, or Dragon's Gate Mountains, along the eastern margin of ...
- Created on 19 August 2025
- 4. How Plastic Pollution Flows from Rivers to Oceans — and How to Stop It ...
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- Rivers carry plastic across continents, so scientists tracked its movement across continents too. Rivers carry plastic across continents, so scientists tracked its movement across continents too. A ...
- Created on 29 July 2025
- 5. Rivers Choose Their Path Based on Erosion — A Discovery That Could Transform Flood Planning and Restoration ...
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- Rivers are Earth’s arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from the mountains to the sea. Rivers are Earth’s arteries. Water, sediment and ...
- Created on 10 July 2025
- 6. Flooding Along the Uruguay and Ibicuí Rivers ...
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- ... Space Station photographed the still-swollen Uruguay and Ibicuí rivers. The image above is a mosaic of several of those photos, acquired on June 24, 2025. (Click on the image to see the full mosaic.) The ...
- Created on 03 July 2025
- 7. Island Rivers Carve Passageways Through Coral Reefs ...
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- ... and transporting key nutrients. Now, MIT scientists have found that reef passes are shaped by island rivers. In a study appearing today in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the team shows that ...
- Created on 20 June 2025
- 8. Research Shows Rivers Release Ancient Carbon Dioxide Into the Atmosphere, Uncovering a Greater Role for Plants and Soil in the Carbon Cycle ...
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- A new study has revealed for the first time that ancient carbon, stored in landscapes for thousands of years or more, can find its way back to the atmosphere as CO₂ released from the surfaces of rivers. ...
- Created on 12 June 2025
- 9. When Rivers Take a Weird Turn ...
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- Some rules of hydrology are made to be broken. Some rules of hydrology are made to be broken. Two such infractions occur at junctions along rivers in Venezuela and Suriname, where the water flows ...
- Created on 09 June 2025
- 10. Climate Change Supercharges Atmospheric Rivers Over Antarctica ...
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- ... “atmospheric rivers” over Antarctica – long, narrow plumes of warm, moist air that can travel thousands of kilometres and deliver intense precipitation. A new study published last week in Nature Communications ...
- Created on 06 June 2025
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