A hydropeak tweak could make dams less damaging
Scientists know that hydropower dams often decrease the abundance and diversity of aquatic insects downstream.
Restoring river prawns fights disease
In 1986, people finished building an 18-meter-high dam on the Senegal River in West Africa.
Kicking out cows can restore western US wetlands
In southeastern Oregon, a natural experiment has been quietly taking place over nearly a quarter of a century.
Greenways or freeways?
Greenways are a breath of fresh air in polluted, crowded cities.
The hidden garbage in the Thames
Plastic garbage is clogging the River Thames, and some of the most commonly discarded items are parts of sanitary pads that have been flushed down the toilet, according to a new study in Ma
The high cost of coal
Just how much damage is being done by mountaintop removal coal mining? Unless we calculate an “environmental price tag,” researchers argue in PLOS ONE, policymakers can’t determine whe
Making Land
Southern Louisiana is one of the world’s fastest-disappearing landmasses. Cutting the losses may mean letting in the floods. By Hal Herring.
Chasing Rainbows
Lured by a utopian vision of nature, government agencies for decades carpet-bombed thousands of remote mountain lakes with billions of trout.
A Room Full of Mini-rivers
Showing how biodiversity cleans up water pollution
Live and Let Die
Dead salmon bring Canadian parks to life
Ask not what a park can do for spawning salmon. Ask what robust salmon runs could do for the park—and for coastal fishing communities.
