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 ...

“It might be the highest density of trout species on Earth,” says podcast guest Ulrich Eichelmann of Balkan countries’ riverine legacy, which has become threatened by a tsunami of hydroelectric dam ...

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 ...

A report about the state of the world’s remaining free-flowing rivers This report assesses the state of the world’s remaining free-flowing rivers and seeks to answer the question why we should ...

An aerial view of the Vjosa River near the city of Permet taken on March 14, 2023. ADNAN BECI / AFP via Getty Images In a win for environmentalists, Albania officially designated one of the largest ...

The small mountain streams that feed many of the West's rivers may face a much drier future. A new study led by NAU ...

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 ...

WHEN I visited the river Derwent in Yorkshire in March, the landscape wasn’t as I remembered it from my youth. Normally, the floodplains would be inundated with water and the whole river system feel ...