Southeastern Ethiopia’s longest river supports the growth of green vegetation amid the otherwise brown, desert landscape.
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The fast-flowing river cuts through a snowy landscape as it flows toward Lake Ontario.
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Floods and new infrastructure have long since separated the distinctive bend in the river that was portrayed by landscape painter Thomas Cole in 1836.
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The image shows Goosenecks State Park, where the river is surrounded by canyon walls more than 1,000 feet high.
This false-color image from April 1, 2002, shows numerous braided channels and oxbow lakes along the Songhua River in northeastern China, just upstream of the city of Harbin.
One of Asia’s largest rivers carves the landscape and people carve a living from its floodplain.
In the past few centuries, a river in northwestern Canada stopped wandering and assumed a more direct route to the sea.
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Flowing past the city of Vancouver, the Fraser River delivers a thick plume of sediment to the Strait of Georgia.
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This model of the land elevation between the Mississippi, the Atchafalaya, and the Old River show the uphill fight to control river flow.
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