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05/05/2018 / By Edsel Cook

The Great Lakes’ biggest problem: Decades’ worth of pollution has altered the fish

In the 1960s, the Cuyahoga River became infamous for becoming so polluted that it regularly caught fire. Now it suffers a different, subtler kind of water pollution. Decades of discharging chemicals into the waters of the Great Lakes have altered the hormones and metabolism of fish found in the Cuyahoga and two other rivers, according […]

03/26/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Preserving riverside forests by connecting fragmented habitats may conserve biodiversity, ecosystems

Aside from protecting various endangered species, the conservation of river-floodplain ecosystems is another challenge that experts are trying to address in the 21st century. According to a group of researchers from the University of Tsukuba in Japan, landscape genetics can be used to help sustain threatened ecosystems. The high soil moisture in forests on the […]

03/17/2018 / By Michelle Simmons

Watershed wetland complexes mitigate excess nitrates from fertilizer run-off, preserving water ecosystems

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience provides new understanding on the efficiency of wetlands within a watershed in mitigating harmful chemicals in rivers and streams. A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota looked at effective strategies on reducing nitrate at the landscape scale. In conducting the study, the research team used […]

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