Parentage-based tagging (PBT) is an emerging genetic-based fish tagging method that involves genotyping hatchery broodstock. PBT is a passive non-invasive…
Canada's Mackenzie River basin — among the world's most important major ecosystems — is poorly studied, inadequately monitored, and at serious risk due to…
The study, published online in May in the journal PLOS ONE, assessed how vulnerable each freshwater species in California is to climate change and estimated…
Although large dams are generally considered more harmful than their smaller counterparts, the research team’s surveys of habitat loss and damage at several…
Until recently people believed much of the rain forest's carbon floated down the Amazon River and ended up deep in the ocean. University of Washington research…
Agricultural irrigation in California’s Central Valley doubles the amount of water vapor pumped into the atmosphere, ratcheting up rainfall and powerful…