River
Managing Pacific Northwest dams for a changing climate
They developed a new technique to determine when to empty reservoirs in the winter for flood control and when to refill them in the spring to provide storage…
SRNL assesses bamboo crop
These are the kinds of bamboo that can be troublesome to property owners — the kinds with runners — but that feature is exactly what makes them possibly…
World’s Rarest Gorilla Ready for Its Close-up
With the assistance of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Cameroon Program, a film crew from the Hamburg-based NDR Naturfilm managed to video the elusive…
Researchers establish common seasonal pattern among bacterial communities in Arctic rivers
New research on bacterial communities throughout six large Arctic river ecosystems reveals predictable temporal patterns, suggesting that scientists could use…
NOAA deploys new 'smart buoy' off Annapolis
NOAA deployed the seventh in a series of “smart buoys” to monitor weather conditions and water quality in the Chesapeake Bay today.The buoy, located at the…
Cuts to Mississippi levees could build new land in sinking delta
For decades, sea-level rise, land subsidence, and a decrease in river sediment have caused vast swaths of the Mississippi Delta to vanish into the sea. The…