These dissolved salty minerals eventually reach the oceans, bringing 4 billion tons of salt to the sea each year. If the rivers carry salt, why aren’t they salty too? Rainwater dilutes the rivers and ...

Just over half the world's population shares a river or lake basin with at least one other country. To sustainably manage ...

The future of freshwater is increasingly in jeopardy across Canada and around the world. Lakes, rivers and wetlands face numerous threats, from climate change to a range of harmful pollutants. Today, ...

Billions of humans worldwide rely on freshwater for drinking and crop irrigation. In the last 50 years, habitat degradation has reduced wetlands by 35%, shrinking three times quicker than the rate of ...

Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission has issued a notice for a fresh local council election hours after the state assembly notified Governor Siminalayi Fubara that it would amend the law ...

a key freshwater source. Currently, four out of five units at the Kaptai hydropower plant are non-operational, significantly lowering water flow downstream. This has allowed salty seawater from the ...

The waters are flowing freely once more, teeming with renewed life, thanks to Climate WorX, a government-led initiative dedicated to river restoration and climate action. Once choked with garbage ...

Bull sharks have been sighted in the Mississippi River as far north as Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. However, the cold, fresh water is not sustainable for them to live in. Bull sharks are ...

However, as millions step into the sacred waters, it is important to confront an uncomfortable truth: our sacred rivers are in crisis, beneath the spiritual aura lies an alarming reality—the Ganga, ...

A groundbreaking study led by Padma Shri Dr. Ajay Sonkar has revealed that these bacteriophages naturally cleanse the water, making Ganga the only freshwater river in the world with such ...

A new report from the Public Policy Institute of California points out that the atmospheric rivers that dropped immense quantities of rain and snow on the state this month, following a very dry ...