A new study authored by Björn Nyberg and colleagues offers the world's first comprehensive classification of river channel belts at a 30-meter resolution. River channel belts are wide corridors ...

A contentious channel formed off the Mississippi River has begun to build new land off Plaquemines Parish’s east bank, according to research published Tuesday. Debate over the future of Neptune Pass ...

Compared to single-channel meandering rivers, multichannel braided rivers are often found in environments with sparse vegetation and coarse, shifting bars of sediment. Past research has called the way ...

A gap in the Mississippi River's banks in the waterway's far southern reaches has widened into a full-blown channel, funneling huge amounts of water through it and prompting the Army Corps of ...

A researcher has come up with a rule that connects channel belts to river patterns, finding that, in general, the more channels a river has, the narrower its channel belt. Since the physics shaping ...

The mighty Mississippi River was renamed the mightier Mississippi on Tuesday, by a gathering of federal, state and local officials heralding the deepening of the river's navigation channel to 50 feet ...