These giant rivers in the sky are both destructive and essential for the Western U.S. water supply.
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Qanats are an ancient system which could be a useful way of getting water to farms in arid areas.
On one stretch of Nottingham’s River Trent, floods that arrived every 50 years now return in ten.
A recent study focusing on how offshore wind farms in Massachusetts waters could affect endangered right whales does not call for slowing the projects, but says monitoring will be critical.
Saltwater intrusion is bad for human health, ecosystems, crops and infrastructure. Here’s how seawater can move inland, and why climate change is making this phenomenon more frequent and severe.
New research shows turning northern rivers inland to irrigate Australia’s dry interior would not increase rainfall. This is another argument against the Bradfield scheme.
The Angolan Highlands are hydrologically and ecologically important - and the region’s newly mapped peatlands are valuable “carbon sinks”.
Record low water levels on the Mississippi and other major rivers, as seen in 2022, could become more common, threatening transportation of many key goods and raising prices.
Extreme weather is set to dominate our future – can collecting rainwater reduce the threat posed by both drought and flooding?
A couple weeks of rain doesn’t make up for months of dry weather.
The world’s great rivers are see-sawing from trickles to floods.
‘Green water’ is essential for healthy soils and a benign climate, but it’s under threat.
By mismanaging its forestry road system, Québec and the forestry companies operating in public forests have made significant savings, to the detriment of protecting aquatic environments.
Beavers in our landscapes have great potential to provide small-scale adaptations to climate change – if humans can figure out how to live with them.
It’s about developing a community of practice: people who can work alongside scientists, taking science out of the laboratory and into the field.
As rivers run dry in the Rocky Mountains and the West, it’s easy to wonder where all the snow you see on mountain peaks goes. Some of it ends up in the air, but researchers aren’t sure how much.
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Fulbright-Lloyd's Visiting Scholar, University of New Orleans & Honorary Researcher, University of Leicester
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Professor of Water and Planning, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Hydrology, University of Reading
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Professor of Snow Hydrology, Colorado State University
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Professor of Geosciences, UMass Amherst
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Extraordinary Associate Professor of Anthropology and Water Sciences, University of the Western Cape
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Professeur titulaire / Full professor, Faculty of Forestry, Geography and Geomatics, Université Laval
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PhD Candidate in Planetary Boundaries, Stockholm University
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Researcher and Theme leader, Anthropocene Dynamics, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
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Working Group Leader, Terrestrial Safe Operating Space, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
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Research Associate, University of Sheffield
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Assistant Lecturer of Civil, Environmental and Water Engineering, Atlantic Technological University
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Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Memphis
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Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Memphis
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Associate Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Memphis
