Freshwater

Scientists from UiT The Arctic University of Norway have issued a stark warning regarding the impact of melting Arctic sea ice on global ocean circulation patterns. Their recent study highlights that significant inflows of freshwater from melting sea ice into the Nordic Seas have historically led to dramatic cooling in northern Europe. By analysing...

A new report calls for urgent action to conserve resources and protect ecosystems critical to maintaining the global freshwater supply.

Pollution, habitat degradation, climate change and over-use of freshwater resources are putting a strain on Europe, the European Environment Agency warned.

When fishermen in Manipur's Thanga island village in the northeast's largest freshwater lake Loktak heard about flooding in the valley areas, they quickly hauled out their row boats from the lake and loaded them on the back of a truck.

Naegleria fowleri, a tiny organism found in warm freshwater, can enter the body through the nose when people swim or dive in contaminated water.

India needs a countrywide law to regulate groundwater and manage freshwater resources. Overdependence on monsoons should have been a thing of the past by now.

Kim Kardashian demonstrated why she is the best in the fashion game by wearing a Schiaparelli design that had around 50,000 freshwater pearls on it 

Beijing and other cities braced for severe flooding on Friday as summer storms rolled across many parts of China, while inland regions baked in intense heat, threatening to shrink the country's biggest freshwater lake.

A fish larger than a man, tasty as well as beautiful, the freshwater pirarucu is a favorite with poachers in a lawless part of the Amazon jungle where Brazil, Peru and Colombia meet.

Taking to Instagram, Sam Pepper shared a video of him trying "live jumping shrimp salad". The bizarre delicacy is made by mixing live freshwater shrimp with seasonings, ground roasted chillies, cilantro, fresh sauce and onion.

The Russians, Ukrainian officials say, closed the city's freshwater intakes in the adjacent Kherson province after they overran the region as part of what Vladimir Putin calls "a special military operation."

Rivers around the world have been drying up recently. The Loire in France broke records in mid-August for its low water levels, while photos circulating online show the mighty Danube, Rhine, Yangtze and Colorado rivers all but reduced to trickles.

Aqua Bazar was launched by the gvernment on Thursday as an app to help fish farmers and stakeholders to source the inputs. The app was launched alongside a book on "Super Success Stories from Indian Fisheries" by Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Parshottam Rupala. Aqua Bazar has been developed by Bhubaneswar-based ICAR-Cen...

A 13-foot-long, 661-pound stingray found in Cambodia's Mekong River earlier this month has now been confirmed as the largest freshwater fish in the world by Guinness World Records (GWR).

Cambodian villagers on the Mekong River have caught what researchers say is the world's biggest freshwater fish ever recorded, a stingray that weighed in at 300kg (661 lb) and took around a dozen men to haul to shore.

Scientists from UiT The Arctic University of Norway have issued a stark warning regarding the impact of melting Arctic sea ice on global ocean circulation patterns. Their recent study highlights that significant inflows of freshwater from melting sea ice into the Nordic Seas have historically led to dramatic cooling in northern Europe. By analysing...

A new report calls for urgent action to conserve resources and protect ecosystems critical to maintaining the global freshwater supply.

Pollution, habitat degradation, climate change and over-use of freshwater resources are putting a strain on Europe, the European Environment Agency warned.

When fishermen in Manipur's Thanga island village in the northeast's largest freshwater lake Loktak heard about flooding in the valley areas, they quickly hauled out their row boats from the lake and loaded them on the back of a truck.

Naegleria fowleri, a tiny organism found in warm freshwater, can enter the body through the nose when people swim or dive in contaminated water.

India needs a countrywide law to regulate groundwater and manage freshwater resources. Overdependence on monsoons should have been a thing of the past by now.

Kim Kardashian demonstrated why she is the best in the fashion game by wearing a Schiaparelli design that had around 50,000 freshwater pearls on it 

Beijing and other cities braced for severe flooding on Friday as summer storms rolled across many parts of China, while inland regions baked in intense heat, threatening to shrink the country's biggest freshwater lake.

A fish larger than a man, tasty as well as beautiful, the freshwater pirarucu is a favorite with poachers in a lawless part of the Amazon jungle where Brazil, Peru and Colombia meet.

Taking to Instagram, Sam Pepper shared a video of him trying "live jumping shrimp salad". The bizarre delicacy is made by mixing live freshwater shrimp with seasonings, ground roasted chillies, cilantro, fresh sauce and onion.

The Russians, Ukrainian officials say, closed the city's freshwater intakes in the adjacent Kherson province after they overran the region as part of what Vladimir Putin calls "a special military operation."

Rivers around the world have been drying up recently. The Loire in France broke records in mid-August for its low water levels, while photos circulating online show the mighty Danube, Rhine, Yangtze and Colorado rivers all but reduced to trickles.

Aqua Bazar was launched by the gvernment on Thursday as an app to help fish farmers and stakeholders to source the inputs. The app was launched alongside a book on "Super Success Stories from Indian Fisheries" by Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Parshottam Rupala. Aqua Bazar has been developed by Bhubaneswar-based ICAR-Cen...

A 13-foot-long, 661-pound stingray found in Cambodia's Mekong River earlier this month has now been confirmed as the largest freshwater fish in the world by Guinness World Records (GWR).

Cambodian villagers on the Mekong River have caught what researchers say is the world's biggest freshwater fish ever recorded, a stingray that weighed in at 300kg (661 lb) and took around a dozen men to haul to shore.