The loss of oxygen from the world’s ocean is increasingly threatening fish species and disrupting ecosystems, a new IUCN report warns. Ocean oxygen loss, ...
Nearly two decades and $4 billion into a sweeping restoration program, new data about the pace of climate change has raised questions about how much of ...
As climate change accelerates, the fight for global water supplies will only intensify. The Aral Sea was once the world’s fourth largest inland lake. Today, ...
Case Studies Lake Management Environmental Conservator
Half of the marine life in the world’s oceans depends on the enrichment of phytoplankton by dissolved iron, just as plants at the base of the food chain on ...
You'd never suspect it on a whisper-still morning, with the mountains and marsh reflecting off the water, but Upper Klamath Lake in southern Oregon is a tough ...
Case Studies Environmental Consequences Climate Change Lake Management Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD)
Governments meet in Monaco over the next week to approve a scientific report outlining climate change impacts on the earth's oceans and snow and ice-covered ...
By analysing sediment cores from the bed of Europe’s oldest lake, an international team of scientists has created a detailed climate history of the ...
Corals use sugar from their symbiotic algal partners to control them by recycling nitrogen from their own ammonium waste. Guoxin Cui looks at the anemone ...
Academic Research Environment Algae Nitrogen Coral Reefs
The discovery was made at 800 meters below the surface in two small canyons on the continental slope outside Lofoten. An underwater craft takes samples of ...
No Burning of Fuels; NO Existence for Humans: CO2 in air is the only and the lonely source of food for all creatures on this planet. Whenever any mouth would ...
Case Studies Climate Change Climate Change Adaptation Climate Change Resilience
When there is a combination of population increase, wastewater discharge, agricultural fertilization, and climate change, the cocktail is detrimental to ...
Sea temperature and ocean acidification have climbed during the last three decades to levels beyond what is expected due to natural variation alone, a new ...
The climate crisis is creating a drought crisis affecting tens of millions of people every year across the world as well as energy and food supplies, warns a ...
Marine heatwaves are a much bigger threat to coral reefs than previously thought, research revealing a previously unrecognized impact of climate change on ...
Academic Research Microbiology Environment Marine Climate Change Water microbiology Coral Reefs
A new global study of how calcium concentrations are changing in freshwater lakes around the world has revealed that in widespread areas in Europe and eastern ...
Academic Ecology Freshwater Lake Management Aquatic Ecologist
A USC-led study into certain marine microbes may have revealed a dramatic shift in how the ocean and its microorganisms will contribute to climate change. ...
A new study from The Australian National University (ANU) has shown the impact phosphate mining is having on our coral reefs. The study looked at coral reefs ...
A group of Manitoba scientists is looking into whether a tiny native water plant could help reduce toxic algae blooms on Lake Winnipeg. Researchers with the ...
Social Algaecides Research Environment Algae Biogeochemistry Aquatic Environment Algae Treatment Nitrogen Environmental DNA (eDNA) Phosphorus Recovery
The global climate crisis is inextricably linked to water. Climate change increases variability in the water cycle, inducing extreme weather events, reducing ...
Social Climate Change Climate Change Adaptation Climate Change Resilience
Scientists think that green algae are plants water-living ancestors, but we are not sure how the transition to land plants happened. Illustration by ...