Stream Valleys, Channels, and Floodplains
Stream valleys, channels, and floodplains form complicated systems that evolve through time in response to changes in sediment supply, precipitation, land use...
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Floodplain
An area that has been built up by stream deposition, generally represented by the main drainage channel of a watershed, is called a floodplain. This area, usually relatively flat with respe...
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Paleontologists have found in the Patagonia region in
northwestern Argentina the skeleton of a new species of giant
sauropod dinosaur which lived 88 million years ago in the Late
Cretaceous ...
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Budapest (dpa) - A commission set up to protect the Danube River
Tuesday criticized a report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
that ranked Europe's second largest rive...
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President Evo Morales on Wednesday officially declared months of deadly flooding a national disaster, committing some $50 million to the crisis that killed 35 people and affected some 72,000 famili...
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A fast-growing region near the state capital is at greater risk of a potentially catastrophic flood than originally believed, and insurance rates could double for some residents, the government sai...
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Disaster-prone states would get help confronting the crisis in available and affordable homeowner insurance under legislation passed Thursday by the House.The bill, passed 258-155, was primarily th...
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Bali Island, Indonesia (dpa) - More frequent and more intense
extreme weather will lead to adverse immediate impacts on world food
security, the UN Food and Agriculture Orga...
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Bali Island, Indonesia (dpa) - More frequent and more intense
extreme weather will lead to adverse immediate impacts on world food
security, the UN Food and Agriculture Orga...
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One hundred twenty-seven levees around the country are at risk of failing, according to a list to be released Thursday by the Army Corps of Engineers.Communities near those levees were being notifi...
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Stream Valleys, Channels, and Floodplains
Floodplain
Skeleton of new giant dinosaur species found in Argentina
