Sea-level rise due to climate change is poised to shift the way that rivers naturally chart their path to the shoreline. The nature of that change will depend on both the rate of sea-level rise and ...

The term 'avulsion' describes the process of natural channels abruptly changing course. This process is typical in sedimentary systems in which the dispersal pattern is distributive, or spreading out ...

Since the earliest civilizations, humans have used rivers to sustain us; they have provided an essential source of food and water, and a means of relatively easy transport. However, changes in rivers ...

Large floods will sometimes force a river to jump course and forge a new path across the landscape, in rare and catastrophic events known as river avulsions. Scientists have now published a global ...

Back in February during Just Science Week, I posted a bit about some of the work being done regarding experimental sedimentation (see here). I highlighted the work being done by sedimentologists and ...

River avulsions -- catastrophic floods triggered when a river charts a new path to the sea -- could occur more frequently on rivers as sea levels rises. Sea-level rise due to climate change is poised ...