THOSE who have visited the Riviera of Piedmont will remember as one of its most remarkable features the broad stony river-beds, sometimes ... sometimes entirely dry, but never with any body ...

dig up a dry river bed. In an hour or two, water - salty and muddy - will fill the freshly dug hole. Sunardi, and scores of other residents in Karanganyar village in Central Java province ...

the presence of certain iconic river animals within its channels tell us that a dry river bed is not normal for this system. The murray cod, dead versions of which have recently bought graziers to ...