WILLMAR -- Like a stuck accelerator pedal, we've speeded up the delivery of sediment to Lake Pepin so that it will fill up in a mere 300 or so years, instead of the 3,600 years that natural processes ...

The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) rivers carry a massive sediment load that feeds the world’s largest depositional system: the GBM megadelta. The mass of sediment transported annually by the GBM ...

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 the uplands to the ocean.

The Zambezi River carrying sediment downstream. Free-flowing rivers are generally not included among lists of Nature-based Solutions (NbS). However, rivers that carry a natural sediment load are ...

The drought in Southwest Colorado has triggered a dredging operation on McPhee Reservoir to remove sediment that blocks delivery of water to irrigation canals during the reservoir’s lowest level. The ...

Picture an hourglass lying on its side, the top resting in the Mississippi River to capture the sands of time floating downstream from the Midwest. The sand flows through the neck of the hourglass and ...