Tom Dunne, a UCSB professor of geomorphology, uses a surveying rod to measure the “super-elevations” where the debris flow ran up the trunks of trees along the east bank of Montecito Creek. From these ...

It’s been so long for so many. You, too, may have forgotten the simple pleasure of watching water run by. Even the smallest of creeks can provide a moment in time, the power of place. Make a trip this ...

Erie is one of the best-watered counties in Pennsylvania, yet it has no rivers and only a few significant creeks. It does have a large number of streams and runs. Many east-to-west inland ridges are ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - There are some things without a clear definition, but you just know what they are when you see them. A river is defined as a natural stream that has defined banks and flows into ...

UCSB geologist Ed Keller says that a 15-foot-high embankment just north of Hammond’s Meadow by the railroad tracks was part of the “penultimate event” debris flow in Montecito 1,000 to 2,000 years ago ...

<"IT CAN HAPPEN ON A CREEK, LIKE A SMALL STREAM, OR IT CAN HAPPEN ON A LARGER RIVER TOO."> Middle Creek near Indianola barely flows Tuesday afternoon <"TO GET ICE JAMS YOU NEED USUALLY LOWER RIVER ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Riffling through old maps while researching a history project for San Francisco public schools, landscape architect Bonnie Sherk made a discovery: A century ago a creek coursed where ...

One of Colorado’s natural beaches has water once more. Medano Creek has begun flowing for the season, meaning Great Sand Dunes National Park just became one of the most sought-after locations in the ...

On a recent day of fatal flash floods, a Southeast Austin creek ran so quickly, it outpaced Niagara Falls in a way, the City of Austin said. The city’s press release continued: "The Onion Creek’s ...

Preliminary data from Dunne’s surveys suggests that the debris flow was more than 20 feet deep at the Cold Springs trailhead on East Mountain Drive. Photo by Mike Eliason, Santa Barbara County Fire ...