Bedrock fractures shape waterfalls
Scientists replicated river systems in a laboratory and found that erosion around waterfalls varies based on pre-existing fractures in the…
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Wildfires and forest harvesting worsen severe weather impacts
Scientists found that forest harvesting and wildfires in British Columbia are causing severe weather events to create more geohazards, like…
How did land plants change rivers?
Scientists studied meandering rivers across the globe to establish how they responded to the evolution of land plants.
Most river water comes from the ground
Hydrologists incorporated ground and surface water flow data into Earth System models. They used these models to estimate that nearly 60% of…
Can scientists predict catastrophic floods?
Researchers showed river structure and moisture conditions can help predict large-scale flood events.
A crater on Mars may be a future landing site
Here on Earth, scientists study layers of sediment like dirt and sand to better understand how rocks form. The same contextual clues…