but it contains high levels of organic nutrients that can cause algae blooms and devastate native aquatic ecosystems when dumped into streams and rivers. Stephanie Morris wades through an algae ...

Like cows and humans, even our rivers can be gassy. A “Nature” paper co-authored by researchers at the Yale School of the Environment last month quantified the methane contributions of all the world’s ...

That means hundreds of rivers and streams around the world would become so water-stressed that their flora and fauna would hit a danger point, says Inge de Graaf, the lead author of the study and ...

Dozens of Alaska’s most remote streams and rivers are turning from a crystal clear blue into a cloudy orange, and the staining could be the result of minerals exposed by thawing permafrost, new ...

Researchers for years have been baffled as rivers and streams across Alaska turned orange, but new research points to climate change as an answer. Scientists suspect the drastic color change is ...

Rivers and streams in Alaska are changing color – from a clean, clear blue to a rusty orange – because of the toxic metals released by thawing permafrost, according to a new study. The finding ...

More than 99% of the state has some form of drought. Hall says the water levels in some rivers and streams are much lower than normal for this time of year. “The West Fork of the Cedar River ...

According to researchers, 26.7% of the state’s creeks, rivers and streams have been tested for contaminants. Of those areas, which make up 16,710 miles of water, nearly 60% are considered too ...

The State of Georgia has hundreds of miles of rivers and streams, and hundreds of thousands of acres of lakes and reservoirs for recreation. However, before you dive in to the state’s lakes ...