This video explores the four key river erosion processes of hydraulic action, abrasion, attrition and solution. Each erosion process wears away the river’s bed and banks. Soft rocks erode more quickly ...

Parts of Southern University's campus in Baton Rouge are slowly eroding into the Mississippi River, but state and federal leaders said Wednesday they have a plan to stop it. The collapsing land has ...

It’s mid-morning at an oxbow on the Mendenhall River, and signs of change are all around. A handful of spruce trees, felled by river erosion, sit awash in the gray-green rush. Silty ledges, ...

The Missouri River drains an area of 530,000 square miles and extends over one-sixth of the conterminous United States. The Missouri River originates at the confluence of the Gallatin, Jefferson, and ...

Logging activity a century ago on a Washington river caused the bedrock to erode, creating a new terrace. The authors believe such large-scale, human-caused erosion may be widespread. Geologic time is ...

Don Waskosky and his wife, Becky, awoke in late September to hear the Le Sueur River raging outside their backyard southeast of Mankato after more than a foot of rain fell during a 24-hour period.

The erosion has progressed at an accelerated rate and has reached other rivers, threatening a national highway and Indigenous communities. Studies commissioned by the Ecuadoran government call for ...

PALMER — State transportation officials say they’re planning emergency repairs next week for an erosion-threatened section of the Glenn Highway near Sutton and are monitoring two other sites closely.