Twenty of these freshwater fish species have a 50% or greater probability of extinction within the next 20 years.
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Between 1986 and 2016, Kenya lost about 21 of its seagrasses.
Fish need to cross roads too. But the tunnels built to channel rivers under roads and railways can block their migrations.
Pollutants from industrial and domestic sources in the Lagos lagoon represent a cocktail of environmental contaminants.
I’ve worked in threatened fish conservation and management for more than 35 years, but this species is special to me.
When the post-bushfire rains finally arrived, the situation for many fish species went from dangerous to catastrophic. A slurry of ash and mud washed into waterways, sending oxygen levels plummeting.
As climate change warms northern rivers and changes precipitation patterns, some types of cold-loving fish are failing.
Mediterranean groupers are not alone: they are home to a wide variety of parasites.
A new study shows high-fibre brown rice also contains more arsenic than white rice – so which is better for you?
Fish must be released into good quality water, with suitable habitat and lots of food. These conditions have been quite rare in Murray Darling rivers in recent years.
Colossal squid have eyes the size of soccer balls, and can weigh up to 700kg. That’s a lot of calamari!
The NSW government is soon expected to grant environmental approval to Snowy 2.0. But that process should be halted.
With restaurants closed and prices dropping, fishers are finding new ways to keep their business above water.
From a scientific perspective, the results are fascinating and world-first. From a personal perspective, what I saw will stay with me for a long time.
The arrangement of bones in our specimen’s fins are the same as those of ‘fingers’ in tetrapods. The only difference is the digits are locked within the fin, and not free moving.
Fish, frogs, turtles and platypus at major risk of extinction following the bushfires. So why aren’t they getting much attention?
Recent rains have not eliminated the threat of a repeat of last summer’s mass fish deaths.
Fire debris flowing into Murray-Darling Basin will exacerbate the risk of fish and other aquatic life dying en masse in a repeat of the shocking fish kills of last summer.
Regulations have lowered mercury emissions globally, but the risks to ocean ecosystems and human health may be getting worse.
The EU continues to enter into fresh agreements with countries, despite evidence of serious population declines in the species of interest.
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Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Executive Director and Professor of Fisheries and River Management, Gulbali Institute (Agriculture, Water and Environment), Charles Sturt University, Charles Sturt University
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Professor, Macquarie University
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Associate professor, University of Canberra
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Associate professor in ecology, Charles Sturt University
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Postdoctoral research associate, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Professor of Marine biology, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Professor, University of Wollongong
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Professor, at IMAS and Director of the Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Biodiversity Genomics, Flinders University
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Honorary Fellow in Economics, The University of Queensland
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Associate professor in marine biology, Swansea University
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Senior Principal Research Scientist - Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO
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Assistant Professor, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society // CEO MarFishEco Fisheries Consultant Ltd, Heriot-Watt University
