Ecosystems – Biology – Animals

Beekeeping preserves wetlands in Algeria

The Wetlands Complex of Guerbès-Sanhadja in Algeria. With an area of 42,100 hectares and 40 million m3 of water reserves…

6 years ago

River Revives After Largest Dam Removal in USA History

In August 2014, workers completed the largest dam removal project in U.S. history, as the final part of the 210-foot-high…

6 years ago

Nature is teaching … are we learning?

The three major challenges in the water sector can be summed up as too little, too much or too dirty.…

6 years ago

US Supreme Court: Washington must remove barriers to salmon migration

Photo: Melissa Erkel, a fish-passage biologist with the Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, looks at a culvert along the…

6 years ago

Change in Water Storage Maps Added to Living Atlas

A new image service has been added to the Living Atlas of the World. It shows monthly change in water…

6 years ago

The Great Barrier Reef of the Americas: Coastal Lessons from the Past

This is part 1 of a two-part series concerning Richard Condrey and Natalie Peyronnin’s recent paper, “Using Louisiana’s coastal history…

6 years ago

“Non-renewable” central Washington water source nearly run dry

Have you had a 10,000 year-old glass of water? The water that’s pumped up from the Columbia Basin’s deepest irrigation…

7 years ago

Everyone Is Applauding National Geographic’s Cover — But Shock Lies Inside

National Geographic magazine has just launched an informative and shockingly revealing campaign called Planet or Plastic? and it is something…

7 years ago

Water and wetlands

Wynchnor Washland — part of Staffordshire WT's Farming Floodplains For the Future project (credit Nick Mott) Wetlands are vital part…

7 years ago

Tiny Goldfish Create Monster Problem If Released In Fresh Water

MEDICAL LAKE, WA — "Swim, fishy, swim," you may think as you free your little aquarium goldfish into natural waters.…

7 years ago