Mount Everest, seen from Namche Bajar, Nepal, would be worn down to sea level in a mere 44 million years if not for Earth’s constantly shifting landscape. Erosion is the picking up of material, ...

Rivers are Earth’s arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from the mountains to the sea. Some rivers carve out a single pathway, while ...

Rivers are Earth’s arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from the mountains to the sea. Some rivers carve out a single pathway, while ...

Soil erosion is a major worldwide threat to agro-ecosystem sustainability and land productivity. Fallout radionuclides and stable isotopes are used to measure magnitudes and sources of soil erosion, ...

Rotating annuli, with fluid between inner and outer rings and the flow driven by the differential rotation of the lid(s) in contact with the fluid, have been widely used for studying erosion and ...