Science has a lot to say about the health impacts on humans of breathing air saturated with wildfire smoke, but less is known about the impacts of wildfire smoke on landscapes, especially freshwater ...

Lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens), a flagship species in North American freshwater ecosystems, occupies a central role in aquatic biodiversity and fisheries management. Historically abundant, their ...

The 19th-century American naturalist Henry David Thoreau described the small freshwater lake at Walden as "Earth's eye"—a measure of the complexity of ecological interactions. Subscribe to our ...

Experts: Bear Creek Village drawdown to tackle nuisance plants gets mixed review. Draining the lake at Bear Creek Village is one way to control the nuisance plant population, some lake-ecology experts ...

Responsibility for the enormous project to return Capitol Lake to an estuary has been transferred to the Department of Ecology. The Washington State Legislature included the decision in the budget ...

Jasmine Saros has visited West Greenland every summer since 2011. Saros, a professor of lake ecology at the University of Maine, travels north annually to collect data on the region’s fresh waters. In ...

Reinvigorating the dwindling Great Salt Lake could bring benefits to regional ecology and help bridge the environmental justice gaps that impact area residents, a new study has found. As inland seas ...

Responsibility for the enormous project to return Capitol Lake to an estuary has been transferred to the Department of Ecology. The Washington State Legislature included the decision in the budget ...