Rivers support billions of people but are among the least protected parts of nature. A major review shows what needs to be done as climate change accelerates.

A major global review led by UC researcher outlines practical, catchment-scale solutions to help rivers worldwide “soak up” increasingly extreme climatic events.

Damming may be one of the most significant anthropogenic modifications fragmenting river networks. Damming alters the transport and processing of coarse particulate organic matter (OM), hence influen...

DRYvER is a Horizon 2020 project, which aims develop an innovative meta-system approach that incorporates hydrology, socio-economics, ecology and biogeochemistry to improve our understanding on how cl...

Drying rivers could be becoming more common with climate change, affecting the diversity of living in these ecosystems. This study compared how aquatic invertebrates respond to drying in river networ...

As the river runs dry, new groups of ecosystem services emerge while others gain or lose importance in comparison to the flowing phase. Drying diversifies ecosystem service provision, although their ...

The authors use multidecadal, high-resolution data to investigate the spatial variability of vegetation greening in European mountains. They show that changes in snow cover duration play a more signif...

A new study has found that the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT in the workplace entrenches biased language based on gender

Launched in 2018, the Make Our Planet Great Again (MOPGA) initiative has met with worldwide enthusiasm, generating expressions of interest from a large number of highly qualified students and researchers.  

Intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams (IRES), those watercourses that periodically cease to flow or dry, are the world's most widespread type of river ecosystem. Our understanding of the natural ...