Biodiversity is declining rapidly. Many conservation actions focus on single species. An alternative approach is to comprehensively improve ecological processes and habitats, thereby supporting entire ...

Alyssa Murdoch is a postdoctoral fellow with Wildlife Conservation Society Canada and Carleton University. She receives funding from Mitacs Elevate, the Yukon Fish & Wildlife Enhancement Trust, and ...

The UN Biodiversity Conference emphasized again how important the protection of biodiversity is for us humans, including freshwater biodiversity. One goal of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity ...

Often unassuming and cloaked in dull shades of brown or gray, freshwater fish have long been overlooked when it comes to conservation. It’s come at a cost, with as many as a third of global ...

Eutrophication is a leading cause of impairment of many freshwater and coastal marine ecosystems in the world. Why should we worry about eutrophication and how is this problem managed? Eutrophication ...

First ever annual estimate of economic value of water and freshwater ecosystems is US$58 trillion - equivalent to 60% of global GDP Degradation of rivers, lakes, wetlands and aquifers threatens their ...

Olivia Young is a writer, fact checker, and green living expert passionate about tiny living, climate advocacy, and all things nature. She holds a degree in Journalism from Ohio University. Of the two ...

Emmanuel O. Akindele works for Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He receives funding from the British Ecological Society. In Nigeria, various environmental pressures have jeopardised ...

Wetlands have long received little attention in traditional limnology courses. Yet they are a critical resource, providing habitat for important species, significant links in the cycling of nutrients ...

William Hintz likes to think of the complex connections making up our environment as a series of dominoes. “You push one domino and many other dominos fall — even though you didn't push them,” Hintz, ...

(Beyond Pesticides, May 6, 2025) A study in Ecology Letters finds “severe degradation of ecosystem functioning in the form of loss of organic matter consumption and dramatic shifts in primary ...