"When these trees die, the nearby streams turn brown," he said.
And it can be useful to eels during the Amazon's dry season, when streams turn to mud patches, cutting off routes of escape.
The sheer amount of storm water that engulfed the region has demolished fences, exposed pipelines, destroyed water infrastructure, created huge gullies that were once only small seasonal streams, turned roads into rivers and washed dam banks away.
As much as I liked the idea of TweetDeck with User Streams turned on, I couldn't get into it.
Afterwards, the streams turn into saved videos that people can watch on Facebook unless the broadcaster deletes them, unlike Meerkat where streams disappear immediately and Periscope where they're only replayable for 24 hours.
I know where the stream turns, where the otter lives.
Yet as word of Chen's condition spread on the country's popular microblogs, the stream turned into a river.
As the Stream turns northeastward at Cape Hatteras, it becomes a narrow, meandering current, though still sharply separated from the water on either side.
Because of the rotation of the Earth, the stream turns right as the planet spins, and flows in a wavy line around the pole, like a badly cut monk's tonsure.
The West Wind Drift flows east toward South America south of latitude 40° S, and while most of it continues through the Drake Passage around the southern tip of South America to the Atlantic, a shallow stream turns north to parallel the continent as far as latitude 4° S, where it turns west to join the Pacific South Equatorial Current.
