The Great Salt Lake has long been a symbol of scarcity, a shrinking inland sea ringed by dust and brine. Now scientists say ...

Discover 7 fascinating facts about the Great Lakes of North America. Learn about the connected lakes, global freshwater ...

RENO, Nev. – As temperatures rise, particularly in alpine regions, lakes are feeling the heat. Research published today in the journal Science, led by researchers at the Carnegie Institution for ...

Science has a lot to say about the health impacts on humans of breathing air saturated with wildfire smoke, but less is known about the impacts of wildfire smoke on landscapes, especially freshwater ...

Freshwater life is vanishing at a pace that now rivals, and in some cases exceeds, losses on land and at sea. New global ...

Inger Andersen is Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). 26 August 2025 When you think of water, you might picture ...

"There has been no inflow of fresh water from the Indus River into the lake over the past eight years, which has badly ...

Beatrix Beisner currently receives research funding from NSERC, FRQNT, Hydro-Québec and the Québec Ministry of Environment (MELCCFP) . She is Co-director of the Interuniversity Research Group in ...

Bacteria play key roles in degrading organic matter, both in the soil and in aquatic ecosystems. While most bacteria digest large molecules externally, allowing other community members to share and ...

Mass-mortality events of predators are becoming more common, but their precise effects on food webs remain unclear. Experimentally induced predator die-offs led both to reduced predation and to ...

Ecosystems, Vol. 24, No. 2 (March 2021), pp. 434-450 (17 pages) Lakes process a disproportionately large fraction of carbon relative to their size and spatial extent, representing an important ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — An rare freshwater jellyfish has been spotted in Lake Erie. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced an intern recently found a peach blossom ...