The nearly 3 million rivers that weave across the world are experiencing rapid and surprising changes, with potentially drastic implications for everything from drinking water supplies to flood risks, ...

Rivers join downstream, flow downhill, and eventually meet an ocean or terminal lake: These are fundamental rules of how waterways and basins are supposed to work. But rules are made to be broken. In ...

Mr. Coates is a journalist based in the Netherlands and the author of “The Rhine: Following Europe’s Greatest River from ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Oxford has created the most complete map of the world's rivers ever made, offering a major leap forward for flood prediction, climate risk planning, and ...

Rivers change their paths over time. They shift, dry up, get buried, and sometimes reappear. Because of this, it is hard to ...

Can you explain the concept of a river as a living being? At the heart of the book is the idea that rivers have lives, deaths –– and even rights. It asks readers to imagine rivers in these terms, and ...

The rivers etching the terrain are a beloved feature of the rapidly growing region. But last week’s flooding was an agonizing reminder of the dangers they pose. The Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Tex.