A woman selling fish in a market in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. From Ancient Egypt to the Zhou Dynasty to first century Palestine, fish have symbolized wealth and abundance, demonstrating the ancient ...

A new study examining global freshwater resources has revealed that human actions have significantly altered the planet’s freshwater cycle. So how will these changes impact our water supply and by ...

Decades of overuse and environmental damage have pushed the world’s freshwater systems past a critical tipping point ...

A new publication launched by leading European Ocean scientists, titled Navigating the Future VI (NFVI), highlights our lack of understanding of saltwater intrusion into coastal freshwater systems ...

Lakes and other freshwater systems emit large quantities of methane, which is the second most important greenhouse gas worldwide after CO 2. Dredging and the use of Phoslock (a phosphate-binding clay ...

Echo has cared for the water for as long as they can remember. Growing up along the St. Croix River, they remember taking boat trips with their family to clean up the trash throughout the waterway.

New research from India shows how bifacial solar modules should be deployed to achieve strong performance in floating PV projects planned on tropical freshwater. Their experimental setup demonstrated ...

Two hundred fifty people will be putting their heads together at a conference in Madison to discuss a pressing freshwater challenge: how to reduce runoff, especially from agricultural fields, that ...

Emmanuel O. Akindele works for Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He receives funding from the British Ecological Society. In Nigeria, various environmental pressures have jeopardised ...

Fish in market in Laos along the Mekong River. For millennia, fish have symbolized wealth and abundance. Thousands of years later, fish are still a critical component of diets for people around the ...