"It will allow us to help answer a variety of ... questions." Scientists make incredible discovery in Illinois river for ...

The Livingston-based nonprofit Montana Freshwater Partners will receive $1.5 million over three years fromthe Montana ...

We spent a day underwater to see how biological collection specialists are saving freshwater mussels one dive at a time.

Freshwater habitats – including rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, bogs and wetlands – cover less than 1% of the planet’s surface, but support 10% of its animal species, said Catherine Sayer, a ...

Polluted runoff is still smothering the Great Barrier Reef, our first national assessment of water quality trends in ...

Water is one of the most essential elements for the survival of all beings. However, there are some nations that do not have ...

Conservation groups have been pushing for protections for the river — which hosts the largest variety of living organisms of any freshwater river in North America — for years. The Duck River ...

Freshwater sources are also suffering from a cocktail of different challenges. An increase in water abstraction and dams on rivers are reducing the available habitat for wildlife. Some rivers ...

said freshwater environments, like rivers and lakes, contain 12% of the world’s species. So, if a quarter of these fish go extinct, it could have ripple effects across ecosystems worldwide and ...

Initiated by Governor Newsom in 2020, the state of California launched an ambitious plan to conserve 30% of its lands and ...