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Flooding during June 2011 on the Missouri River floodplain near Arrow Rock, Mo.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Missouri River Floodplain Expansion, Services, and Resiliency

by Aaron Sidder 28 July 202228 July 2022

Benefits might accrue for both wildlife and climate resiliency if more floodplains along the lower Missouri River were allowed to flood.

The Colorado River with canyons in the background
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Impact of Climate on River Chemistry Across the United States

by Sarah Derouin 26 July 202227 July 2022

Findings of a new study have implications for water quality, aquatic ecosystem health, and water treatment and management as the world warms.

Senior citizens in a rural setting take part in a mapping workshop in Uganda’s Kigezi Highlands.
Posted inNews

Community Science Project Helps Track Geohazard Risks in Uganda

by James Dacey 22 July 20222 August 2022

A community project in the Kigezi Highlands is helping to identify landslide and flooding hot spots and how the hazards are evolving.

Three maps of the United States with different colored data points.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Explaining Uncertainty in Estimates of Rain Response to Warming

by Alessandra Giannini 13 July 202225 July 2022

Humidity increases with warming. Theory and observations about how increased humidity translates into more extreme rainfall can be reconciled if attention is paid to data and methods.

San Pablo Bay marsh
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Atmospheric Rivers Help Coastal Wetlands Build Up Sediment

by Alexandra K. Scammell 13 July 202213 July 2022

Accounting for these storms and flooding can help experts predict and respond to rising sea levels.

Aerial view of the Pemali delta in Indonesia
Posted inNews

Why Do Rivers Jump Off the Beaten Path?

by Carolyn Wilke 21 June 2022

Researchers sifted through 50 years of satellite imagery and came up with new clues to where and why rivers avulse, suddenly changing their course.

River flow paths in Iceland derived from HydroSHEDS.
Posted inAGU News

Charting Paths to New Knowledge

by Heather Goss 20 May 20221 June 2022

In our June issue of Eos, we home in on the unique ways researchers are using maps to better understand Earth and beyond.

Figure 1 from the paper, showing the depiction of a multiple-reservoir system and the system that is used in the computation of the index.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

A New Index to Assess Multiple-Reservoir Effects on Peak Floods

by Georgia Destouni 11 April 202220 May 2022

A simple, yet quantitative, index is demonstrated to quantify reductions in the peak flood resulting from multiple reservoirs, arranged in series along the same river reach.

Imagen aérea de un vecindario en Texas inundado. Se observan sólo los techos de las casas y las copas de los árboles.
Posted inNews

Cuando los ríos están contaminados, las inundaciones son solamente el primer problema

by J. Besl 24 March 202224 March 2022

A medida que las inundaciones aumentan en frecuencia e intensidad, los productos químicos enterrados en los sedimentos de los ríos se convierten en “bombas de tiempo” que esperan activarse.

Four Black people sit in a small motorized boat as it moves up a flooded street toward prefabricated and mobile homes. The boat is near the bottom right of the image and is pointed toward center-left. All four people face away from the viewer. The sky is blue but mostly clouded over.
Posted inNews

Black Neighborhoods Will Bear Future Flood Burden

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 4 March 20224 March 2022

Climate change, shifting populations, and infrastructure development in risky areas compound future flood loss risk.

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