The Narrow River became milky and smelly. Here's why it's a natural occurrence.
Upper Pond has a maximum depth of 42 feet, and the freshwater at the very bottom is naturally anoxic and full of sulfur. When ...
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Lee signs order to conserve Duck River, a ‘scenic treasure’ at risk
The scenic 269-mile waterway is renowned for hosting the largest variety of living organisms of any freshwater river in North America. But the Duck was named the third-most endangered river in the ...
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How the Return of Salmon to the Klamath River Shows Us What’s Possible in Wildlife Conservation
Once a tragic example of degraded wildlife habitat, the Klamath River’s dam removal demonstrates how people can halt the ...
Vanishing Waters: NASA Reveals Alarming Global Freshwater Decline
Freshwater reserves on land and underground have dramatically declined over the past decade, raising concerns that Earth’s ...
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Gov. Bill Lee signs executive order to protect Duck River, promote water resource management
According to the governor’s office, Executive Order 108 specifically recognizes the Duck River Watershed as North America’s most biologically diverse freshwater rivers, making it a critical co ...
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Governor Lee Signs Order Aimed At Protecting Duck River Watershed
The Order specifically recognizes the Duck River Watershed as North America’s most biologically diverse freshwater river and its critical contribution to Tennessee’s outdoor recreation economy ...
Australian Geographic12d
Troubled waters: Australia’s freshwater fish are facing extinction
The endangered eastern freshwater cod has dwindled in part due to historic fish kills linked to dynamite blasting and pollution from mines and agriculture. It remains threatened by changes to river ...
Science Daily29d
Microplastics increasing in freshwater, directly related to plastic production
For this study, the team examined freshwater sediment cores from four watersheds in Pennsylvania: Kiskiminetas River, Blacklick Creek, Raystown Lake and Darby Creek. Contrary to the team's ...
The Independent9d
Freshwater supplies are ‘abruptly’ depleting across the globe, NASA warns
Lake Michigan is part of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin: one of the world’s largest sources of freshwater. Freshwater has been ‘abruptly’ disappearing over the past decade ...
Salmon Are Returning to the Undammed Upper Klamath River Even Sooner than Expected
Officials in California and Oregon are already seeing coho and chinook salmon returning to the now free-flowing upper Klamath ...
The Vancouver Sun11d
'A special moment': Water again flowing at Red Slough on the Pitt River, fresh hope for salmon
An important salmon habitat in the Upper Pitt River that had become choked by logging road construction a century ago is once again flush with freshwater. The Katzie First Nation and the B.C ...
Time10d
The World’s Freshwater Resources Drop to Troubling Low
It’s harder still to lose track of two and a half Lake Eries, but that’s more or less what happened back in 2015, when the Earth lost 290 cubic miles (1,200 cubic km) of freshwater ...