Tag: Rivers

William H. Schlesinger
March 18, 2025 William H. Schlesingerbiogeochemistry, environmental policy, environmental politics, faculty, lakes and streams, water, water pollution, wetlands

From Headwaters to the Sea

This is not the time to “unburden” the corporate world from regulations that protect our environment.

Rolling on the river

More than half of the riverwater in the continental U.S. is derived from ephemeral streams

The Source of the Yellow River

the color of rivers seen from space may provide a better index of the health of rivers than simple visual observations from land

William Schlesinger
July 23, 2019July 23, 2019 William Schlesingeragriculture, faculty, lakes and streams, water, wetlands

Waters of the United States

Eliminating protection for first order and seasonal (ephemeral) streams means that anything that might be dumped in the headwaters of major rivers would be exempt from pollution laws