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A Holistic Approach to Hydropower Data

by Debjani Singh 21 August 202310 January 2024

A new online platform offers comprehensive data and tools about U.S. hydropower assets, enabling data-driven decisionmaking at the energy–water nexus.

A creek flows in a forest.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Current Agriculture Adds More Phosphorus to Streams Than to Lakes

Rachel Fritts, Science Writer by Rachel Fritts 17 August 202317 August 2023

Improved agricultural nutrient management could improve stream water quality by reducing phosphorus levels, but rising temperatures and rainfall due to climate change might offset improvements.

Photo of a riverbank in Alaska.
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Frozen Riverbanks May Erode Faster in a Warming Arctic

by Marisa Repasch 16 August 202315 August 2023

Frozen flume experiments reveal the sensitivity of permafrost riverbank erosion to water temperature, bank roughness, and pore-ice content.

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Posted inResearch Spotlights

Biogeochemical Insights from a Major Amazonian River

Aaron Sidder, freelance science writer by Aaron Sidder 15 August 202322 October 2024

Underrepresented in global carbon budgets, tropical rivers like Brazil’s Tocantins are in need of study to establish their baseline characteristics in the face of increasing global change.

Satellite view of part of Badwater Basin in Death Valley, Calif., showing meandering river channels running through the arid landscape
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Mud Could Have Made Meandering Rivers Long Before Plants Arrived

by Rebecca Dzombak 31 July 202331 July 2023

New evidence from 1.2-billion-year-old rocks suggests that single, sinuous channels could have formed in muddy floodplain sediments without the stabilizing help of vegetation.

Graph from the paper.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

How Much Terrestrial Precipitation is Used by Vegetation?

by Alberto Montanari 27 July 202325 July 2023

Precipitation is partly used by vegetation and partly transformed into river flow. Quantifying the amount of water that is directly used by vegetation is essential to decipher climate change’s impact.

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Posted inFeatures

Cee Nell: Making Data Visual

by Nathaniel Scharping 25 July 202315 November 2023

Nell turns vast columns of data into beautiful and understandable graphics.

Photo of a flooded neighborhood.
Posted inEditors' Vox

Unlocking the Secrets of Floods: Breakthroughs in Riverine and Coastal Modeling

by Keighobad Jafarzadegan, Hamed Moftakhari and Hamid Moradkhani 5 July 20235 July 2023

To enhance flood modeling, it is imperative to gain a comprehensive understanding of the causative mechanisms and cutting-edge models and tools, while also acknowledging their uncertainties. 

An irrigation canal snakes by a field of lettuce outside Yuma, Ariz.
Posted inFeatures

Agriculture 3.0: Preparing for a Drier Future in the Colorado River Basin

Jane Palmer, Science Writer by Jane Palmer 5 July 20235 July 2023

Years of drought and climate change are causing water resources to dwindle in the Colorado River Basin. But farmers and scientists are collaborating to learn how to grow crops with less water.

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Posted inFeatures

Fixing the Flawed Colorado River Compact

by Shemin Ge, Joann Silverstein, James Eklund, Patricia Limerick and David Stewart 16 June 202325 June 2024

The 1922 Colorado River Compact ignored available science and overallocated the river’s water, a decision whose effects reverberate today. Now there’s an opportunity to get things right.

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