The Indonesian Marine Affairs and Fisheries Ministry along with the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center/Inland ...

A detailed extinction assessment of more than 23,000 species of freshwater fauna by the International Union for Conservation of Nature identified major threats from pollution, dams, agriculture ...

With the world facing a worsening water crisis, a huge public survey found that water pollution is the number one environmental issue for people globally, topping even climate change, and that there ...

The river supplies about 60 percent of drinking water to Philadelphia’s 1.5 million people, but saltwater intrusion and pollution is threatening this crucial resource.

In a determined effort to restore the fragile ecosystem of the Ennore estuary, the Tamil Nadu Forest Department has dug a doz ...

A map produced by Miami-Dade County shows the boundaries of the Model Lands, a freshwater wetland basin, and 40 culverts installed by FPL to deliver freshwater to a coastal wetlands mitigation bank.

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 ...

Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes, and other freshwater habitats face extinction, according to a new study published Wednesday in Nature.. Researchers found that 24 percent of ...