Associate Professor of History Debjani Bhattacharyya, PhD, has overcome the challenges of social distancing in her usually hands-on course Rivers in History, using ingenuity and advanced technology.

From the smallest creak to the mightiest waterways, rivers have shaped the natural world and the course of human civilization. But a river’s only consistent attribute is change, and it’s precisely ...

Rivers are not fixed in place but rather tend to shift across the landscape. As they travel, they sow the seeds for diverse and productive ecosystems—forests, wetlands and floodplains—to emerge and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Satellite image of the Irrawaddy River delta in Myanmar, a major rice growing area. European Space Agency, CC BY-SA Throughout ...

Humans have always had a complex relationship with rivers, which both fostered and threatened civilizations throughout history. Just recall Osiris, the ancient Egyptian god of death and rebirth, who ...

Large floods will sometimes force a river to jump course and forge a new path across the landscape, in rare and catastrophic events known as river avulsions. Scientists have now published a global ...