/newsroom/taxonomy/term/3221/all en /newsroom/channels/news/over-260000-kilometres-rivers-risk-due-proposed-hydro-dams-332371 <p>Over 260,000 kilometres of river could potentially be severed by planned hydroelectric developments according to Æ»¹ûÒùÔº researchers. The Amazon, the Congo, and the Irrawaddy are just a few of the rivers at risk of losing their free-flowing status if the proposed construction of new hydropower dams takes place.</p> Thu, 12 Aug 2021 13:29:17 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 272178 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/most-rivers-run-dry-now-and-then-331517 <p>A new study led by researchers from <a href="/newsroom/">Æ»¹ûÒùÔº</a> and <a href="https://www.inrae.fr/en">INRAE</a> found that between 51-60% of the 64 million kilometres of rivers and streams on Earth that they investigated stop flowing periodically, or run dry for part of the year. It is the first-ever empirically grounded effort to quantify the global distribution of non-perennial rivers and streams.</p> Mon, 14 Jun 2021 15:45:00 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 269864 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/worlds-most-detailed-database-maps-characteristics-earths-rivers-and-catchments-303255 <p>Two researchers and friends from opposite ends of the Earth have created a world-first high spatial resolution atlas that maps the environmental characteristics of all the globe's rivers and catchments.</p> <p>HydroATLAS was co-developed by Bernhard Lehner and his team from Æ»¹ûÒùԺ’s Department of Geography and Simon Linke from Griffith University’s Australian Rivers Institute.</p> Mon, 09 Dec 2019 16:12:17 +0000 justin.dupuis@mcgill.ca 190438 at /newsroom /newsroom/bernhard-lehner Fri, 17 Jan 2020 19:16:46 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 197004 at /newsroom /newsroom/article/multidisciplinary-framework-derive-global-river-reach-classifications-high-spatial-resolution <p><em>New paper by Camille Ouellet Dallaire and Bernhard Lehner (Æ»¹ûÒùÔº Department of Geography), Roger Sayre (US Geological Survey, Reston, VA) and Michele Thieme (World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC)</em></p> <p>Source: <a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aad8e9">Environmental Research Letters</a> Published January 25, 2019</p> <p> </p> Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:41:06 +0000 Newsroom 137030 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/measuring-protection-worlds-rivers-263979 <p>To  what extent are the world’s rivers protected?  </p> <p><span>In 2010, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), an international treaty for the conservation of biodiversity, </span><a href="https://www.cbd.int/sp/targets/">set a 17% target</a><span> for the protection of ‘inland waters,’ including rivers. But there was a problem: there was no good way to measure progress toward that target.  </span></p> Fri, 04 Nov 2016 18:16:17 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 26365 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/new-global-wetlands-map-241106 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 23:35:42 +0000 melody.enguix@mcgill.ca 21886 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/better-dam-planning-strategies-240951 Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:14:11 +0000 christopher.chipello@mcgill.ca 21809 at /newsroom