The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles craze of the late 1980s and early 1990s helped drive demand for real freshwater turtles in ...

A new research paper published in Zootaxa describes five new species of freshwater mussels in the southern U.S., providing the scientific foundation for protecting the most imperiled group of animals ...

Off to Toba to meet the manatees I've been longing to see!Hello, this is Sorapy✨. At the end of my last visit to Aqua World ...

The Post-Standard got an exclusive, private tour of the facility that's been under construction for three years.

A third beluga has died at a Chicago aquarium after being rescued this summer from a shuttered Canadian marine park in a complex international operation ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Migratory freshwater fish have declined by an estimated 81% since 1970 yet remain largely overlooked in global conservation policy. At the latest ...

EPA's Freshwater Explorer is an interactive web-based mapping tool for water quality parameters of freshwater streams, lakes, and wells in all 50 U.S. states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Through my swim mask, I could see what Wendell Haag’s finger was pointing at two feet below me on the riverbed. But I couldn’t immediately see that it was alive. It looked like a rock with some kind ...

Our rivers, lakes, wetlands and other freshwater systems face growing challenges across the globe.The good news is that recovery is possible. With the right science, strong partnerships and proven ...

A sweeping global report finds that migratory freshwater fish are in steep decline, with populations down roughly 81% since 1970. These species depend on long, connected rivers, but dams and human ...

Only about 3% of the world's water is freshwater, with much of it locked up in glaciers and ice caps, primarily in Antarctica and Greenland. As climate change bites, some areas are running dry — and ...

This summer scientists drilled deep below the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of northeastern US and tapped into a huge, mysterious reservoir of freshwater — what they discovered could have big ...