Scientists hope hungry black weevils imported from Louisiana can help tackle South Africa's invasive water plant problem.

The Panama Canal is one of the most important waterways in the world, with about 7% of global trade passing through. It also ...

The Freshwater Ecosystems Explorer offers what experts call an unprecedented look at the world’s lakes, rivers and wetlands, ...

The introduced species, Cyrtobagous salviniae, is a subaquatic herbivorous insect renowned for its ability to curtail the ...

Freshwater mussels, also known as clams ... the Tippecanoe River as one of its top ten rivers in the nation most in need of preservation. Norway Dam (northernmost dam) and Oakdale Dam (southernmost ...

In the developed world there is really nothing natural about the way we get our water. Dams produce hydroelectric power and the reservoirs behind dams store water supplies for the long haul.

Researchers led by the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) have published a study on the ecological consequences of the dam collapse in the journal Science.

But in early 2020, a study concluded that the species has recently gone extinct, mainly because of overfishing and dam construction ... be the world’s largest freshwater fish, with reports ...