Freshwater ecosystems and their species also absorb about 7% of the carbon humans add annually to the atmosphere. “Although small in area, these freshwater aquatic systems can affect regional ...

Wetlands, rivers, lakes, and coastal estuaries are all aquatic ecosystems—critical elements of Earth’s dynamic processes and essential to human economies and health. Wetlands connect land and ...

After all those years of climate change, the river now squooshes with a mush ... are known to be highly significant for an ...

Two new murals are coming to downtown Bangor just in time for spring and summer. "One way to influence people’s values and ...

People are affected too. Over the last 50 years, the frequency of – and impacts caused by – severe flooding and drought has increased, partly because of damage to freshwater ecosystems. Meanwhile, ...

upsetting the balance and functioning of entire freshwater ecosystems. This is shown by ecologist Henrik Barmentlo and colleagues in their article published in Ecology Letters. In an earlier study ...

Eutrophication is a leading cause of impairment of many freshwater and coastal marine ecosystems in the world. Why should we worry about eutrophication and how is this problem managed ...

Pharmaceutical giant GSK has kick-started a multi-year partnership with WWF to restore and protect water resources in the Sutlej River Basin in India and the Indus Delta in Pakistan, addressing ...

The nonprofit, which is devoted to protecting the river ecosystem, has multiple policy ... biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and freshwater biodiversity has seen a significant decline ...