Wetz helped to lead the investigation into pollution complaints from folks who live around the Baffin Bay area, and his team not only figured out the contaminants, but where they were coming from, as ...

Nearly a quarter of the world's freshwater species are at risk of extinction due to a multitude of threats, according to new research.

Although freshwater habitats cover less than 1 percent of the Earth's surface, they support 10 percent of known animal species.

Almost a quarter of freshwater animals, including crabs, crayfish, shrimp, damselfly and fish, are threatened of going ...

A quarter of freshwater animals, including fish, insects and crustaceans, are at high risk of extinction due to threats ...

New research shows about a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with ...

A lack of understanding can no longer be used as an excuse for inaction. As the authors of the new study point out, ...

The largest global assessment of freshwater animals on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ to date has revealed that 24% ...