Holding over 80% of Earth’s surface freshwater, lakes support and sustain communities across the planet.

Fluctuations in the weather can have a significant impact on melting Antarctic ice, and models that do not include this factor can underestimate the global impact of sea level rise, according to Penn State scientists.

University of Adelaide scientists have shown how droughts are threatening the health of wetlands globally.

The increased temperature and acidification of our oceans over the next century have been argued to cause significant physical changes in an economically important marine species.

A cooler full of fish might not be the only thing anglers bring back from a trip to the lake.

Sandy shorelines in hurricane’s path were already altered by Laura. 

Landsat images helped convince researchers that a slumping mountainside overlooking Barry Arm fjord could pose a tsunami hazard.

Models based in part on a method NASA has used to track and count wild salmon in Nevada can now be used by governments and humanitarian organizations to more accurately estimate populations and allocate aid to remote regions of the world.

Common assumptions notwithstanding, rare species can play unique and essential ecological roles. 

The global spread of vast forest plantations and agricultural monocultures are turning once diverse landscapes into areas of land supporting single plant species, with profound implications for our terrestrial water cycle, according to new research.