{"id":1835324,"date":"2024-12-13T13:33:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T18:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1835324"},"modified":"2024-12-13T13:33:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T18:33:09","slug":"mapping-every-river-reveals-a-drop-in-water-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/12\/mapping-every-river-reveals-a-drop-in-water-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Every River Reveals a Drop in Water Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cScientists mapped the flow of water through every single river on the planet, every day over the past 35 years, using a combination of satellite data and computer modeling. What they found shocked them,\u201d CNN reports<\/a>. \u201cNearly half of the world\u2019s largest downstream rivers\u201444%\u2014saw a drop in the amount of water flowing through them each year, according to the\u00a0research<\/a>\u00a0published Thursday in the journal Science<\/em>.\u201d On the other hand, smaller, upstream rivers saw an increase in flow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cScientists mapped the flow of water through every single river on the planet, every day over the past 35 years, using a combination of satellite data and computer modeling. What they found shocked them,\u201d CNN… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[621],"class_list":["post-1835324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-environment","tag-rivers","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":191,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/01\/new-years-flooding-in-the-midwest\/","url_meta":{"origin":1835324,"position":0},"title":"New Year’s Flooding in the Midwest","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"11 January 2016","format":"image","excerpt":"[sciba leftsrc=\"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/new-year-flooding-1.jpg\" leftlabel=\"8 Dec 2015\" rightsrc=\"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/new-year-flooding-2.jpg\" rightlabel=\"1 Jan 2016\" mode=\"horizontal\" width=\"\"] These two Landsat images illustrate the extent of flooding along the Wabash and Illinois Rivers at the end of last year, as 6-10 inches of rain fell over the midwestern United States. 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