RENO, Nev. — The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has curated a special journal issue to discuss climate change adaptability in California. Researchers from the University of ...

(Beyond Pesticides, September 15, 2021) Toxic pesticide use, and glyphosate in particular, degrades the health of freshwater ecosystems by harming species that form the basis of aquatic food chains, ...

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 ...

Although most of Earth's water is in its oceans, the water humans consume and use for irrigation and in our households is freshwater. Freshwater in the form of surface water is found in lakes, ...

In California, nearly 4,000 native plant and animal species depend on the state’s freshwater ecosystems. Trout, salmon and smelt run the rivers and carry nutrients to and from the oceans. Nutrients ...

Often unassuming and cloaked in dull shades of brown or gray, freshwater fish have long been overlooked when it comes to conservation. It’s come at a cost, with as many as a third of global ...

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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 ...

Emmanuel O. Akindele works for Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and received funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a research fellowship at the Leibniz Institute of ...

Current water quality guidelines aren't protecting freshwater ecosystems from increasing salt pollution due to road de-icing salts, agriculture fertilizers, and mining operations, according to an ...