Climate change and chronic water mismanagement are placing "unprecedented stress" on the world's water systems, according to ...

Conveying the essence of a plant or fungus or portraying its importance or role in its environment or its means of survival. Csaba Daróczi (Hungary) reveals the beauty of the fronds of water violets ...

Is the floating freshwater fern commonly called Carolina azolla the potential answer to global food insecurity or a possible ...

T HE JAPANESE picture book “Soratobu medaka” tells the extraordinary tale of tiny stream-dwelling fish called medaka hitching a ride on an obliging bird to a far-off freshwater pool. The story has ...

Instead of needing constant power, new system adjusts to use whatever is available.

Do alligators live in saltwater or freshwater? Do crocodiles live in freshwater or saltwater? Can alligators and crocodiles live in both? It’s not as cut-and-dry as you might think. The answers ...

The report finds that demand for fresh water ... to live a “dignified life.” According to the report, while 50 to 100 liters ...

Freshwater mussels are one of the most endangered groups of animals in the world — over 80 species are protected under the Endangered Species Act and >20 species have recently gone extinct. As such, ...

Several southern EU countries rely on it to provide freshwater, for drinking and agriculture. But desalination plants are expensive to build and run, and use a lot of energy, although new ...

Lake Tahoe’s cold water-preferring native species are maladapted to warm water. Physiological threats to native species, ...