Vital for healthy ecosystems, collaborative restoration efforts are giving riparian zones a much-needed lifeline.

Microplastics like microfibers and microbeads escape waste-water systems. They can carry harmful chemicals into nature.

The pesticide thiacloprid turns out to be more harmful than previously thought. It can disrupt the lives of freshwater ...

A pest eradication project at a lake north of Auckland is cleaning up water that has not been the same since a fanatical fisherman illegally introduced invasive fish more than 50 years ago.

Generating power from renewable energy sources cannot exist in isolation from nature. In the case of hydropower plants, they ...

Rapidly spreading Salvinia molesta clogs waterways, endangers aquatic life, and exposes the impact of sewage leaks and poor ...

Lake ecosystems can receive high inputs of terrestrial organic matter (t-OM) that microbes make available to higher trophic level consumers. A research group examined terrestrial reliance of 19 ...

In January 2025, mud samples collected from one of the earliest (now decommissioned) enclosures revealed that the protected kākahi have successfully reached the next life cycle stage too: tiny baby ...

Increases in the production and use of pharmaceutical drugs–like antibiotics, antidepressants and pain relievers–are ...

Those plants' and animals' needs can give conservationists and ... They help provide clean water for people and aquatic ...

The new series follows two ambitious river restoration projects in California and Paris Our Changing Planet is an ambitious natural history series exploring the issues facing the planet’s most ...