It’s not as simple as it sounds—between new measurements, hidden tributaries, and satellite data, the battle for the world’s ...

Researchers studying harmful algal blooms in the St. Louis River Estuary that separates Minnesota and Wisconsin have made a breakthrough discovery: for the first time, they've linked a known ...

4. Discussion The Guajará bay can be considered as having the environmental characteristics of a river during almost all the year, due to discharge from the large Amazon and Tocantins/Araguia basin ...

CONNECTICUT (WTNH) — The Farm River in Connecticut is closer to health after Friends of the Farm River & Estuary received an invasive control grant to remove water chestnuts. The invasive… ...

After around 219 hours of observations, they can confirm that male Amazon river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis), also known as botos, often roll onto their backs and urinate over three feet into the air.

Don Pettit / NASA NASA astronaut Don Pettit has captured another remarkable shot, this one showing the Betsiboka River estuary in Madagascar. “Betsiboka river in Madagascar, remind me of the ...

The Amazon river is the largest drainage system in the world in terms of water volume and its drainage basin. The 6,400 kilometer (4,000 mile) river flows from the Andes Mountains of Peru ...

The estuary is one of the few intact salt marshes remaining. More than 90% of wetlands in Southern California have been lost because of development and other land use changes, according to the ...

Already, back-to-back years of severe drought have scorched the Amazon. According to Dr Ane Alencar, director of science at IPAM Amazônia, “The river’s had no chance to recover,” Ibid.

The Amazon River, battered by back-to-back droughts fueled by climate change, is drying up, with some stretches of the mighty waterway dwindling to shallow pools only a few feet deep.