Articles for tag: Rivers

Predicting the Next Great Reversal

How Rivers Can Suddenly Reverse Direction After Earthquakes

Jan Otte

Picture this: you’re standing beside a familiar river that has flowed in the same direction for thousands of years, when suddenly the ground shakes violently beneath your feet. Within hours, something absolutely mind-boggling happens – the river starts flowing backward. This isn’t some fantasy tale or Hollywood movie plot. This is a real phenomenon that ...

Agricultural Transformation

The River That Disappeared: America’s Lost Waterways

Annette Uy

Picture a river so massive it could swallow the Mississippi whole, flowing where Los Angeles now sprawls under endless concrete. Imagine waterways that once carved through what we call Silicon Valley, their banks lined with ancient oaks instead of tech campuses. These aren’t fantasy landscapes from another planet—they’re the ghost rivers of America, waterways that ...