Road de-icing salts accumulate in streams, wetlands and lakes. They can stay in ecosystems for years or decades.

Hypersaline lake ecosystems are unique aquatic environments characterised by salt concentrations well above that of typical seawater. Such extreme conditions foster specialised biota, including ...

Scientists has discovered a never-before-seen creature in great Salt Lake as ‘roundworm.’The newly found worm species has ...

Scientists have identified a brand-new species of worm living in the Great Salt Lake, marking only the third known animal ...

Utah biologists have characterized D. woaabi, the first of two nematode species recently discovered in the lake’s ...

In the Northland, many think of frozen lakes in terms of ice fishing, snowmobiling, and even ice roads. For University of Minnesota Associate Professor of Biological Limnology Ted Ozersky, the ...

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Where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron connect, powerful water currents rush in opposite directions over an antiquated pipeline known as Line 5. Along the pipeline’s route from Wisconsin to Ontario, via ...

As large wildfires stick around for longer periods of the year in California, so does the smoke they emit. New research from UC Davis says that’s impacting lake ecosystems. The study analyzed the ...

Though sea stars have been mysteriously dying for over a decade, Southern California's lake environments are confronting a different mounting ecological crisis: The golden mussel (Limnoperna fortunei) ...

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Where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron connect, powerful water currents rush in opposite directions over an antiquated pipeline known as Line 5. Along the pipeline’s route from Wisconsin to Ontario, via ...