Freshwater species have been the most affected globally, with an average decline of 85% since 1970, based on data from the Living Planet Index (LPI). Creatures living in rivers and lakes, such as the ...

Dry conditions were fueled by deforestation and the El Niño weather pattern, and made worse by climate change.

KATHMANDU — Nepal has long faced the challenge of balancing the development of infrastructure such as roads, railways and ...

Bangladesh has spent a large amount of money to restore its waterways by dredging the rivers across the country to clear some ...

About 15,000 gallons of an oil-chemical mixture was released June 15, 2022. The spill came from a storm sewer that discharges into the river, a spokesperson for the Michigan Department of Environment, ...

People living in the Amazon basin rely on boats and ferries to cross the headwaters spanning from the Andes to the Atlantic ...

Industrial waste and sewage from the Nairobi River are seeping into crops and drinking water, raising serious health and ...

Conservationists wanted to get involved to protect the nearby Big Wood River from further contamination ... good Samaritans who want to remediate pollution from abandoned mines.

A Brazilian police program call "Targeting Gold" is aiming to track the so-called "DNA of Brazilian gold" in an effort to ...

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, Jim and Birte ...