Freshwater habitats – including rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, bogs and wetlands – cover less than 1% of the planet’s surface, but support 10% of its animal species, said Catherine Sayer, a ...

Freshwater ecosystems across the world are in distress. As scientists better comprehend the extent to which lakes, ponds, rivers and marshlands—and the animal and plant life they support—are ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction, according to new research. "Huge rivers like the Amazon can appear ...

Freshwater sources are also suffering from a cocktail of different challenges. An increase in water abstraction and dams on rivers are reducing the available habitat for wildlife. Some rivers ...

Rivers, lakes, streams and freshwater wetlands are a key habitat, supporting more than a tenth of all known species, including around a third of vertebrates and half of animals, even though they ...

"Most threatened freshwater animals like shrimps ... they are essential for keeping healthy the ponds, lakes and rivers that billions of people rely on. Environmental degradation is a risk ...