When you're stuck on an elevated freeway, you don't have other options to get from Point A to Point B - like fish in a fragmented river. Last year, while driving a rental car back to the Atlanta ...

A major new international review co-authored by Professor Gemma Harvey, Professor of Physical Geography in the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London, ...

The UN Biodiversity Conference emphasized again how important the protection of biodiversity is for us humans, including freshwater biodiversity. One goal of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity ...

Biodiversity is declining rapidly. Many conservation actions focus on single species. An alternative approach is to comprehensively improve ecological processes and habitats, thereby supporting entire ...

They are all far from human settlement and are situated in Nigeria's different vegetation and geographical zones. Our findings revealed that the streams had exceptional biological water quality, which ...

The Amazon rainforest and basin are crucial for the balance of the Earth's environmental systems that enable life as we know it. The world’s largest rainforest covers 6.7 million square kilometers and ...

Pesticide contamination continues to spread into protected areas, as documented by a study in Brazil of epilithic biofilms.

From ancient times, civilizations have depended on freshwater bodies—lakes, reservoirs, rivers, and wetlands. Fresh water is essential not only to sustain human life but also to support the activities ...

Alyssa Murdoch is a postdoctoral fellow with Wildlife Conservation Society Canada and Carleton University. She receives funding from Mitacs Elevate, the Yukon Fish & Wildlife Enhancement Trust, and ...

Wetlands have long received little attention in traditional limnology courses. Yet they are a critical resource, providing habitat for important species, significant links in the cycling of nutrients ...