When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...

First Nations groups spar over conflicting loyalties to wild salmon and corporate aquaculture in BC's coastal waters.

Some of us remember the first Earth Day, Saturday, April 22, 1970. We pulled old bedsprings and tires out of local rivers and urged a ban on phosphates that fueled weed growth in streams and ...

The study of marine biogeochemical cycles has historically concentrated on natural components, but the growing understanding of the complex relationships ...

New research on the cost of reducing the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone places a $7 billion dollar annual price tag on reaching ...

New research on the cost of reducing the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone places a $7 billion dollar annual price tag on reaching ...

A coalition of researchers from West Virginia University, Iowa State University and the Texas Soil and Water Research Laboratory has determined that decreasing nitrogen runoff from agriculture in the ...

Some areas of the house may create Wi-Fi "dead zones" with lagging speeds even if you are on your provider's fastest plan. My CNET colleague Trisha Jandoc discovered this when troubleshooting her ...

In some areas, heat waves can cause oxygen levels to deplete, resulting in dead zones that are unable to support life. Warming also impacts ocean flora and fauna in other ways. For example, one study ...

Subterranean estuaries the, subsurface mixing zones of terrestrial groundwater and seawater, substantially influence solute fluxes to the oceans. Solutes brought by groundwater from land and solutes ...