Sue Vorenberg There is no scientific field called "river psychology," but that hasn't stopped Peter Vorobieff and his colleagues from trying to figure out why rivers behave the way they do. The ...

Restoring rivers to their natural state is now hit-and-miss, primarily because scientists don't really know what makes a river meander. A scale model using alfalfa sprouts to represent vegetation now ...

IN connexion with the communication by J. H. Horlock in Nature of November 26, p. 1034, I am writing to urge that the term ‘meander’ should be strictly limited to natural meanders, not to bends due to ...