Ecosystems – Biology – Animals

Long term ag change impacts stream water quality

Photo: Graduate students Heather Luken and Tanner Williamson collect water samples from an automated sampler on Four Mile Creek. The…

5 years ago

New rules limiting clean water protections ignore stream science

Photo: Sections of the Little Colorado River in northern Arizona are ephemeral, flowing most frequently during the spring to accommodate…

5 years ago

Should Rivers Have Rights? A Growing Movement Says It’s About Time

Inspired by indigenous views of nature, a movement to grant a form of legal “personhood” to rivers is gaining some…

5 years ago

California Adopts Landmark River Plan to Bring Back Salmon

Photo: California is debating the future of the Merced River and others. (Steve Payer/California Department of Water Resources) [Pub. date:…

5 years ago

Reusable Glass Water Bottles: The Reasons to Ditch the Plastic

Trends come and go, and the living healthy ones aren’t an exception to this, however, one that’s hardly going to…

5 years ago

Coal Ash Dumps Are Contaminating Groundwater in 22 States

Coal ash located at the Possum Point Power Station in Dumfries, Virginia, appears in a photo taken on June 26,…

5 years ago

Divining roots—revealing how plants branch out to access water

Arabidopsis thaliana root growing on soil preferentially branching towards moist soil. Credit: Daniel von Wangenheim New research has discovered how…

5 years ago

Congress Should Reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund

Congress has the opportunity to reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) before they recess for the holidays, and…

5 years ago

Earthquakes in Heart of Texas Oil Country Spur Water Crackdown

Chart: Earthquakes in Heart of Texas Oil Country Spur Water Crackdown (Bloomberg) -- Texas is considering new restrictions on how…

5 years ago

Five gross things we used to dump in the Mississippi River — and what we’re dumping now

Steve Lee, a history buff and retired pollution regulator with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, stops near the University of…

5 years ago