Freshwater

The effort to save one of Canada's most endangered freshwater fish now involves electronic tracking of specimens bred in captivity and released into the Nova Scotia watershed that holds the world's only remaining wild population.Last week,…

Blue foods -- those that come from the ocean or freshwater environments -- have tremendous potential to help address several global challenges. With careful implementation of policies that leverage these foods, nations could get a boost on…

An almost limitless supply of fresh water exists in the form of water vapor above Earth's oceans, yet remains untapped, researchers said. A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is the first to suggest an investment in…

Ex-Aussie cricketer Michael Slater is rushed to hospital after he was arrested over a 'disturbance' at woman's homeCricket legend Michael Slater arrested at a home on Sydney's northern beachesTaken to police station before he…

KARACHI: Authorities in flood-hit Pakistan strategically breached the country's largest freshwater lake on Sunday, a minister said, displacing up to 100,000 people from their homes but saving more densely populated areas from gathering…

WORLD WATER WEEK 2022: World Water Week is an international, week-long, global conference that takes place in late August or early September, in Stockholm. Issues concerning freshwater are discussed on this day. The week is also taken as an…

The extent of plastic pollution remains largely hidden from view in the form of microplastics (MPs): plastic particles with diameters less than 5 mm. Since plastics are slow to degrade, they fragment into tiny particles that end up…

<!-- -->The fish was caught by fishermen in the Stung Treng district of northern Cambodia on June 13A 13-foot-long, 661-pound stingray found in Cambodia's Mekong River earlier this month has now been confirmed as the largest…

<!-- -->Christened Boramy because of her bulbous shape, the four-metre long female was released back.Cambodian villagers on the Mekong River have caught what researchers say is the world's biggest freshwater fish ever recorded, a…

The world's largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists from the Southeast Asian nation and the United States.The stingray, captured on June 13, measured…