The lakes, streams, and ponds you've visited for years are likely looking more brown than they used to. And people who are ...

Children used nets to gather aquatic life from the river, examining their finds in water-filled trays on the bank.

Children used nets to gather aquatic life from the river, examining their finds in water-filled trays on the bank.

From fish and turtles, to hippos and crocodiles, about 43% of all known large freshwater animal species have been ...

Freshwater mussels are the kind most people don't even know exist. They live for decades—more than a century in some cases.

Biologists are racing to save America’s freshwater mussels—the water-filtering keystone species that once filled the ...

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth ...

Clean Up The Lake (CUTL) announced the release of its Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Video Identification Toolkit, a ...

Wetlands provide habitat for apple snails, which attract endangered snail kites in the Everglades. Renee Bodine U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The Everglades seldom benefit from invasive species.

Road salt used for ice removal can have negative effects on the overall surrounding water systems. Snails, in particular, have to use more energy to move through water that has a high concentration of ...

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