Along with this stunning image is the first-ever global estimate of river water discharge and overall sediment suspension.

Long river waves, known as flow waves, have been measured by satellite for the first time, researchers announced May 14, a breakthrough that could expand understanding of river dynamics, floods and ...

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In this September 2016 photo, Clint VanSchepen, a hydrologic technician with the U.S. Geological Services Iowa Water Science Center in Iowa City, checks the river gauge on the Twelfth Avenue bridge in ...

In the face of climate change and worsening cycles of drought, California water managers have been increasingly focused on the precise tracking of water resources. Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada is ...

Geologists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a technique that allows scientists to see how fast rivers flowed on Mars billions of years ago and currently do on Titan, ...