Tag: Rivers

William H. Schlesinger
October 12, 2024 William H. Schlesingerenvironmental policy, environmental politics, faculty, lakes and streams, water, water pollution, wetlands

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

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