Increasingly severe and numerous wildfires are changing the face of land across the globe, but new research by UC San Diego and others reveals that aquatic ecosystems are also being transformed, the ...

The National Science Foundation grant is helping researchers study how invasive species are impacting aquatic ecosystems in ...

Researchers have shown that the effects of wildfires are not limited to terrestrial ecosystems. Aquatic ecosystems are also undergoing rapid changes. The study found that fire debris transforms lakes ...

Drugs like cocaine and a common metabolite of it, benzoylecgonine, show up in bodies of water near urban areas. People ...

Last week, wildfires blazed across western Canada, turning the town of Jasper, located near Alberta’s Jasper National Park, into ashes. The local government estimated that the fire damaged or ...

The global crisis of diminishing biological diversity is challenging our current ability to monitor changes in ecosystems.

Microplastic pollution is severely impacting Ganjam's marine ecosystem, with synthetic fabrics and degraded plastics ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Floods, spatially complex water flows, and organism movements all generate important fluxes of aquatic-derived materials into terrestrial ...

Turtles are often unfairly maligned as fish killers that ruin the ecosystems of our ponds, rivers, and streams. The facts are that many turtles are omnivores and consume large amounts of aquatic ...

Myxozoan parasites represent a highly diverse group of microscopic organisms that have evolved from free‐living cnidarians into specialised endoparasites. These organisms possess distinct ...

On 17 May 2022, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission signed an agreement to begin aquatic ecosystem restoration design and construction work at Harlan County ...

A series of wildfire experiments conducted at UC San Diego carry implications for aquatic ecosystems in areas such as the Sierra Nevada mountains. In devasting cases dotting the globe in recent years, ...