Italian explorer Alex Bellini plans to travel down the world's 10 most polluted rivers on make-shift rafts, tracing the routes of plastics that pollute the world's oceans.

How mountains, rivers and seas shape the fates of nations December 3, 2021 Clouds of smoke rise from the site of an airstrike in Mekele, the capital of the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on ...

The inset maps show the multi-threaded river network at regional scale in seven selected regions of the globe (Fraser, Amazon, Rhine-Meuse, Congo, Padma-Brahmaputra, Mekong and Pearl Rivers).

Follow a river, the saying goes, and it will eventually lead you to a sea. For eons, that has been true. But one day it may not be so because overuse of river waters for agriculture and industry.

The Arctic is seeing a rapid decline in sea ice even during the cold winter months when it should be recovering from the summer melt. Scientists say that one, often overlooked, factor is playing a ...

“Many processes can affect sea level, making predictions of regional sea level change a challenging endeavour,” says Larry Peterson of the US National Science Foundation. “These scientists show that ...

It flows into rivers and ends up in oceans threatens development and has far-reaching economic, ecological, and health impacts. The World Bank, Parley for the Oceans , and the South Asia Cooperative ...