Giving rivers room to move: How rethinking flood management can benefit people and nature
When we think about flood management, higher stop banks, stronger levees and concrete barriers usually come to mind. But what ...
International Rivers7d
Glacier Preservation and Free-Flowing Rivers: Protecting Communities from Dam Disasters
Today marks a historic confluence as we celebrate the first-ever World Glacier Day followed tomorrow by World Water Day. As ...
UN Environment Programme10d
This data platform charts the health of nearly every freshwater body on Earth. Here’s what it reveals
The Freshwater Ecosystems Explorer offers what experts call an unprecedented look at the world’s lakes, rivers and wetlands, ...
From the early days of the Kumeyaay to people living in San Diego today, the river has ‘many stories’ to tell
The artists toiling away in their studios and workspaces, and the environmental advocates encouraging others to join their work, believe in the power of art to nudge people to care a little more about ...
Powell River Peak15d
B.C. projects get $7.6M in federal funding for restoring aquatic ecosystems
Four B.C. projects dedicated to coastal and marine environments are sharing $7.6 million in funding from the federal Aquatic Ecosystems Restoration Fund ... restoration at three sites in the Gordon ...
Canada21d
Fraser River Freshwater Ecosystem Initiative
Overview of Canada's largest port and heritage river.
GitHub22d
Pull requests: PacktPublishing/Blender-to-Unreal-Engine-5-Fantasy-River-3D-Diorama-Boat-Scene
Pull requests help you collaborate on code with other people. As pull requests are created, they’ll appear here in a searchable and filterable list. To get started, you should create a pull request.
Frontiers24d
Dynamic microbiome and mobile resistome are revealed in river biofilms from a multi-use watershed through long-read sequencing
Periphyton DNA was extracted from 0.25 g of wet weight per sample with the DNeasy PowerSoil Kit (Qiagen, Valencia, California (CA), United States). DNA concentration was measured with the Qubit 3 ...
Indiatimes25d
First-ever survey finds over 6,300 river dolphins in India
India's first population estimation of riverine dolphins has revealed 6,327 dolphins in the Ganga, Brahmaputra, and Indus River systems. The census was part of 'Project Dolphin', covering over 8,000 ...
WTTW25d
Beavers Helped Build Chicago. Now They’re Back, But What Are They Up To?
The North American beaver has gone from being nearly hunted and trapped to extinction, to being celebrated as a viral sensation in the Chicago River. In a lot of ways ... they are very much a force in ...
Phys.org25d
South American rivers harbor cancer-linked microplastics, studies show
This is despite Latin America being home to two of the 20 most plastic-polluted rivers on the planet—the Brazilian Amazon and the Magdalena River in ... their impact on ecosystems and health.
Frontiers25d
A novel approach to integrating the stability of river ecosystem and its driving factors
School of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China Introduction: In recent years, river ecosystem stability has been increasingly threatened by ...