Rivers are supposed to follow gravity, flowing from higher ground to lower ground in one clear direction. Yet around the world, there are rare moments when rivers behave unexpectedly and start flowing ...

A seven-year-old girl fell into a river in Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, China, on Sept. 11. The river was fast-flowing. Spotting what happened, an innocent bystander immediately took action and ...

Rivers are usually imagined as steady natural systems that always move in one direction, from high ground towards seas or lakes. That is the basic idea taught everywhere. Yet in different parts of the ...

The Zambezi River carrying sediment downstream. Free-flowing rivers are generally not included among lists of Nature-based Solutions (NbS). However, rivers that carry a natural sediment load are ...

The first ever global assessment of the location and extent of the planet’s remaining free-flowing rivers. GLAND, Switzerland, 9 May 2019 – The first ever global assessment of the location and extent ...

New science about the fate of freshwater ecosystems released by the journal Sustainability finds that only 17% of rivers globally are both free-flowing and within protected areas, leaving many of ...