Restoring rivers to their natural state is now hit-and-miss, primarily because scientists don't really know what makes a river meander. A scale model using alfalfa sprouts to represent vegetation now ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Just as water moves through a river, rivers themselves move across the landscape. They carve valleys and canyons, create floodplains and deltas, and transport sediment from ...

In a feat of reverse-engineering, Christian Braudrick of University of California at Berkeley and three coauthors have successfully built and maintained a scale model of a living meandering gravel-bed ...

Rivers are rarely the calm, orderly streams we imagine on maps. Over time, their winding paths—called meanders—shift, bend, and occasionally snap off in sudden "cutoff" events that shorten loops and ...

According to new research counter-point bars on the outside of river bends are not the oddities they're often made out to be. In fact, they're a perfectly normal part of the river meandering process.

Restoring the bends to our waterways helps wildlife thrive and enhances the landscape I was delighted to hear that conservationists in the New Forest have announced a 10-year project to make their ...

Meandering river in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. Rivers in lowland Amazonia tend to meander due to the flatness of the basin. For example, the Amazon itself falls only 345 feet (105 m) from ...

An enormous bare rock wall in the Brejões mountain range presents a striking picture in one of the most beautiful landscapes in Chapada Diamantina National Park, in the Brazilian state of Bahia. On a ...