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 ...

From the air, the concrete channel of the Los Angeles River is almost indistinguishable from the highways crisscrossing the greater Los Angeles area. The thin ribbon of water that flows down the ...

RED BLUFF — In an example of increasing cooperation between public agencies, restoration teams have completed excavation of the Kapuska 1B Side Channel off the Sacramento River near Redding. The work ...

The Mississippi River Ship Channel could be the first port complex on the Gulf Coast to reach a depth of 50 feet now that the Director’s Report has been signed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

As politicians argue over just how much land the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion could build along a rapidly sinking coast, geologist Alex Kolker regularly makes the 65-mile drive down from New ...

Above: The Auxiliary Structure, the keystone of the $1 billion Old River Control Structure, which keeps the Mississippi River from changing channels. The main channel of the Mississippi River can be ...

River channel belts are wide corridors created by the movement of a river. The interactive map developed by Nyberg and colleagues shows the global distribution of river channel belt extents. The ...

Ten years after plans for a diversion route for the Colorado River around Windy Gap Reservoir outside of Granby was finalized, the project is a go. A consortium of state and commercial water entities ...

CHICO — For decades, Sacramento River chinook salmon have been at a severe disadvantage when trying to spawn and raise their young in the river’s northernmost area. These days, though, the fish are in ...

A century's worth of bad environmental practices by local industries is slated for dredging out of the "Old Channel" around Zug Island, in a more than $50-million federal project to improve ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A decades-long project finally came to fruition in April with the formal celebration of the completion of the Blue River Channel Project. The City of Kansas City, Mo., the Missouri ...