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 ...

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 ...

A new analysis of freshwater resources across the globe shows that human activity has pushed variation in the planet’s freshwater cycle well outside of its pre-industrial range. The study shows that ...

Freshwater systems host diverse microbial communities that underpin critical ecosystem functions and global biogeochemical cycles. Bacteria, archaea, protists and viruses populate lakes, rivers, ...

Seawater intrusion is the movement of saline water from the ocean or estuaries into freshwater systems. The seawater that has crept up the Mississippi River in the summer and early fall of 2023 is a ...

North America and Africa host the planet's largest freshwater lakes. Lake Superior leads the list, holding a tenth of global ...

Africa's tropical belt, defined by the Guinean forests of west Africa and the Congo Basin of central Africa, is globally recognized for its astounding biodiversity. Beneath the surface of this ...

Freshwater bacteria with small genomes frequently undergo prolonged periods of adaptive stagnation. Based on genomic analyses of samples from European lakes, researchers uncovered specific ...

A vast body of low salinity water is hiding beneath the Atlantic seafloor off the United States, a relic of ancient ice age landscapes that now sits under salt water. Scientists say this “secret” ...

They contain 21% of the world's surface fresh water by volume. The total surface is 94,250 square miles (244,106 km2), and the total volume (measured at the low water datum) is 5,439 cubic miles ...