As glaciers disappear at an alarming rate due to climate change, the UN General Assembly has declared 2025 the International ...

Nearly a quarter of freshwater species face extinction due to habitat destruction, pollution, and water overuse.

Freshwater ecosystems cover less than 1% of Earth's surface, but are vital for life on this planet. New research reveals that ...

New research reveals that damage to these environments is pushing freshwater animals to the edge of extinction.

West Greenland's lakes have undergone an alarming change. Within just a couple of years, thousands of its great blue lakes ...

Researchers have identified an unknown family of microbes uniquely adapted to the waterlogged, low-oxygen conditions of tropical peatlands in Peru's northwestern Amazonian rainforest. The new research ...

Storm surges and sea-level rise damage sanitation systems and threaten ecosystems and human health. We need to take this risk ...

While there might not be as many freshwater species, Northern Arizona University researchers say it would still hurt areas ...

Freshwater ecosystems are among the most vital on Earth, but they’re also some of the most endangered. Covering less than 1% ...

All over the planet, many animals and plants are disappearing at an unprecedented rate. Some species are more threatened than ...

This first ever global assessment of freshwater animals has found that one quarter of the 23,496 freshwater species surveyed ...