The invasive sea lamprey brought Great Lakes fishing to its knees in the fifties and sixties, until local communities and ...

There is a rapid decline in global biodiversity due to overhunting, ecosystem destruction, and climate change caused by human ...

By Shanna Hanbury Mongabay’s new short documentary The Time of Water premiered Dec. 16 at the Barcelona Center for ...

Amazon will keep increasing its purchases of renewable energy even if the Trump administration cuts support for the industry, the tech giant’s director of sustainability policy said. Amazon’s ...

As wildlife vanishes from much of the planet, nature’s role in human life is highlighted in new WWF report. Overhunting, ...

Farmers and environmental advocates rallied in Bangkok Jan. 13 to demand the government and a private corporation take ...

Restoring the unique ecosystem along the Mura, Drava and Danube rivers is being hampered by controversial water management ...

This first ever global assessment of freshwater animals has found that one quarter of the 23,496 freshwater species surveyed ...

A study published in Nature Climate Change predicts that 36% of anurans’ habitats worldwide will soon be threatened by a combination of rising temperatures and water scarcity. Brazil has the greatest ...

While the consequences of adding seawater to ecosystems are not yet well understood, we can gain insights on what to expect by considering the effects of sea-level rise.

Lawmakers in El Salvador have voted to reintroduce industrial mining in the country, ending a landmark ban that was meant to ...

New research shows about a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with ...