Cartography of an Oregon River
Dan Coe utilized a geospatial technology called LiDAR to map changes in the flow of the Willamette River in Oregon.
Dan Coe utilized a geospatial technology called LiDAR to map changes in the flow of the Willamette River in Oregon.
Found in the middle of the Northern Atlantic Subtropical Gyre (a gyre is a large system of rotating ocean currents)near the Bermuda Islands, the Sargasso Sea is … Read more
Finland, with over 187,000 estimated lakes, is known as the “Land of a Thousand Lakes”.
Read about how the Amazon once flowed east to west and how the strength of Hurricane Isaac once change the course of the Mississippi river.
Once the fourth-largest inland water body in the world, the Aral Sea shrank again in 2013
Replacing the shrinking areas of the Aral Sea, the Aralkum Desert is located in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, making it the world’s youngest desert.
Rivers are a unique feature in the geography of the earth. They provide dry inland areas with much needed fresh water and allow climates of … Read more
The Zayre River (also known as Congo River) is the largest river in Central Africa. Has a length of 2,920 miles, making it the second … Read more
The Paraná River runs 3,030 miles through Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. It originates at the junction of the Paranaiba and the Rio Grande rivers. The Paraná travels southward and … Read more
The Ob River is the sixth longest in the world and largest in Russia. It is located in the western region of Siberia. It originates … Read more
The Mississippi River is the largest in North America. Bodies of water from 31 contiguous states drain into the Mississippi. Its birth is in Minnesota … Read more
The top ten longest rivers in the world.