It’s mid-morning at an oxbow on the Mendenhall River, and signs of change are all around. A handful of spruce trees, felled by river erosion, sit awash in the gray-green rush. Silty ledges, ...

Just four years ago, Norman Staton had about 15 feet between his deck and his backyard fence. Now his backyard has disappeared, and he’s holding out hope that help can come before he has to start ...

It's anyone's guess as to when the Minnesota River will stop growing. Stretches of its eastern bend, not far from Mankato, have more than doubled in size since the 1940s. Several homes that were built ...

With steep walls and deep valleys, the Grand Canyon in the western United States or the massive gorges that saw through the margins of the Tibetan Plateau are some of the most awesome and spectacular ...

Don Waskosky and his wife, Becky, awoke in late September to hear the Le Sueur River raging outside their backyard southeast of Mankato after more than a foot of rain fell during a 24-hour period.

Logging activity a century ago on a Washington river caused the bedrock to erode, creating a new terrace. The authors believe such large-scale, human-caused erosion may be widespread. Geologic time is ...

PALMER — State transportation officials say they’re planning emergency repairs next week for an erosion-threatened section of the Glenn Highway near Sutton and are monitoring two other sites closely.