This video explores the four key river erosion processes of hydraulic action, abrasion, attrition and solution. Each erosion process wears away the river’s bed and banks. Soft rocks erode more quickly ...

Rivers may seem steady and predictable, but it turns out that they may be a little wilder than scientists once thought. Instead of evenly eating through rock for millions of years, inching downward at ...

It’s mid-morning at an oxbow on the Mendenhall River, and signs of change are all around. A handful of spruce trees, felled by river erosion, sit awash in the gray-green rush. Silty ledges, ...

It's anyone's guess as to when the Minnesota River will stop growing. Stretches of its eastern bend, not far from Mankato, have more than doubled in size since the 1940s. Several homes that were built ...

In 2013, the City and Borough of Juneau contacted the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to look into erosion along Mendenhall River. The river was putting properties at risk as the ...

With steep walls and deep valleys, the Grand Canyon in the western United States or the massive gorges that saw through the margins of the Tibetan Plateau are some of the most awesome and spectacular ...

Greg Kim is a news reporter for KYUK in Bethel, Alaska. Katie Basile is a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker in Bethel. Gabby Hiestand Salgado is an archivist and filmmaker in Bethel. This ...

In the days after Hurricane Harvey, floodwaters had to go somewhere. At two particularly vulnerable areas in Riverside Park in Victoria, the waters drained into the Guadalupe River and consequently ...

The erosion has progressed at an accelerated rate and has reached other rivers, threatening a national highway and Indigenous communities. Studies commissioned by the Ecuadoran government call for ...