Fish in market in Laos along the Mekong River. For millennia, fish have symbolized wealth and abundance. Thousands of years later, fish are still a critical component of diets for people around the ...

A new study examining global freshwater resources has revealed that human actions have significantly altered the planet’s freshwater cycle. So how will these changes impact our water supply and by ...

A new analysis of freshwater resources across the globe shows that human activity has pushed variation in the planet’s freshwater cycle well outside of its pre-industrial range. The study shows that ...

A small fossil reveals that the largest freshwater fish, Otophysans, emerged in the sea, not in rivers, changing the ...

Olivia Young is a writer, fact checker, and green living expert passionate about tiny living, climate advocacy, and all things nature. She holds a degree in Journalism from Ohio University. Of the two ...

Two hundred fifty people will be putting their heads together at a conference in Madison to discuss a pressing freshwater challenge: how to reduce runoff, especially from agricultural fields, that ...

They contain 21% of the world's surface fresh water by volume. The total surface is 94,250 square miles (244,106 km2), and the total volume (measured at the low water datum) is 5,439 cubic miles ...

Researchers identified fossils in a 100-million-year-old Moroccan freshwater system as a marine reptile. Previously, the reptile was thought to have only spent time in saltwater. Some once believed ...

Emmanuel O. Akindele works for Obafemi Awolowo University. He receives funding from the British Ecological Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Their scenic beauty and lush forests make ...