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A new study of dairying in Canterbury shows previous estimates vastly underestimate the impact of intensive farming. A 12-fold reduction in cow numbers could be needed to meet safe water standards.
Nigeria should urgently protect three freshwater ecosystems as these undisturbed environments are becoming rare globally.
Our planet’s invaluable natural store of freshwater is woefully neglected.
The Nigerian government must do more to combat increasing plastic pollution in the country.
Dry regions will get drier and wet regions wetter as the climate changes. How quickly? Quicker than we thought, unfortunately.
A staggering 85% of the world’s chalk streams are found in England.
The presence of a vulnerable species in Ekor Waterfalls, Nigeria, is a signal that the area could support other rare or threatened species.
Australia’s southwest is a biodiversity hotspot - and it’s also a climate change hotspot. Something has to give.
Rivers are among the most embattled ecosystems on Earth. Researchers are testing a new, inexpensive way to study river health by using eDNA to count the species that rivers harbor.
The growing frequency of climate extremes affected human health and caused wide-scale damages to the ecosystems that people depend upon, including agriculture, fisheries and freshwater.
Chemicals in drugs can be excreted unchanged, infiltrating waterways via sewage and effluent.
The lives of one in ten of Earth’s species are connected to lakes and their tributaries.
Canada has 20 per cent of the world’s freshwater reserves and nine per cent of the world’s renewable freshwater resources. However, there is an urgent need for better freshwater governance in Canada.
New Zealanders pay the costs of poor environmental and infrastructural governance, but have little opportunity to influence policy in the first place. Here’s how that could change.
The world’s first futures market for water launched in California in December. Two commodities experts explain how it works, what the potential problems are and why there’s no reason to freak out.
With fewer people commuting, home water use changed radically overnight in March 2020.
Wetlands in drylands seem impossible, but their benefits to people and wildlife are very real.
The projected loss of water storage on land as global temperatures rise is especially alarming in the Southern Hemisphere – and in parts of the US.
A recent US study found tyre chemicals were polluting rivers and poisoning migratory salmon.
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