Rivers are Earth's arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from ...

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A hydrologist explains why Texas Hill Country is known as Flash Flood Alley and how its geography and geology can lead to ...

The latest flash floods have been far more deadly than the ones seen in recent decades. That is because of two primary ...

Floods are some of the most devastating natural disasters communities in the United States face, causing billions of dollars ...

Scientists forecast a mild to moderate algal bloom on Lake Erie as phosphorus runoff, rising temperatures and funding cuts ...

These findings can help explain why some atmospheric river storms cause catastrophic flooding while others of comparable intensity do not.

An exceptionally powerful atmospheric river fueled the deadly early April flooding disaster in the central and southern United States — a historic flood event and a poignant example of how the ...

The study, published in the journal Climate Dynamics, found that atmospheric rivers explain the majority of atypical El Nino Southern Oscillation years.

Of those heretical years, anomalously high or low atmospheric river activity explained roughly 70% of them. The results suggest that atmospheric rivers can override traditional El Niño/La Niña ...