Smaller fish offer better nutrition and lower environmental cost, Amazon River study finds
Smaller fish species are more nutritious, lower in mercury and less susceptible to overfishing, a Cornell-led research team ...
‘The Fish Thief’ Explores a Crisis in the Great Lakes Caused by the Sea Lamprey
The invasive sea lamprey brought Great Lakes fishing to its knees in the fifties and sixties, until local communities and ...
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Mongabay documentary spotlights Indigenous alliance to protect Amazon headwaters
By Shanna Hanbury Mongabay’s new short documentary The Time of Water premiered Dec. 16 at the Barcelona Center for ...
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New research shows a quarter of freshwater animals are threatened with extinction
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction, according to new research published Wednesday. “Huge rivers ...
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How the ‘Amazon of Europe’ Is Paying the Price of Hydropower and Poor River Management
Restoring the unique ecosystem along the Mura, Drava and Danube rivers is being hampered by controversial water management ...
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Freshwater crisis: One in four species faces extinction
Freshwater ecosystems cover less than 1% of Earth but support 10% of all species. Nearly a quarter of these species face ...
Nearly a quarter of animals living in ‘fragile’ freshwater ecosystems threatened with extinction
Most species don’t have just one threat putting them at risk of extinction, but many threats acting together. View on ...
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Pollution biggest cause for declining habitat loss of freshwater fauna like fish: Study
Freshwater species exhibit rich diversity throughout the Amazon river basin, western ... Though climate change negatively affects the freshwater ecosystem, indirectly, it is leading to extreme weather ...
Large number of freshwater animals could go extinct, new research reveals: ‘Many threats acting together’
Scientists examined around 23,500 species of dragonflies, fish, crabs and other animals that depend exclusively on freshwater ...
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New research shows a quarter of freshwater animals are threatened with extinction
"Almost every big river in North America and Europe is massively modified" through damming, putting freshwater species at risk, he said. In South America, the vast Amazon River ecosystem also ...