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This 2024 astronaut photo shows the striking colors of Iraq's Razazah Lake, surrounded by a host of strangely circular fields.

The U.N. has identified Kabwe, a city of almost 300,000 people in Zambia, as one of the most polluted places on the planet. Who is to blame? And can justice be done?

In Illinois alone, more than 90 percent of wetlands have been lost.

The Guardian explores the 'Deep' project underway in Wales

With the state's glaciers retreating at alarming rates, there is no time like now to trek, climb, paddle and fly to see them

A hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes, and may explain why they formed where they did.

Two years ago, scientists surveyed the floor of Lake Michigan looking for shipwrecks. They found something mysterious and unexpected — a cluster of sinkholes on the lakebed.

MANZANILLO, Cuba, Oct 02 (IPS) - When the weather is bad, the residents of the Litoral neighborhood in Manzanillo, Cuba, are forced to evacuate their houses. When it's calm, the sea penetrates the foundations of houses, leaving them vulnerable. Now the community is getting together to restore the mangroves and improve the environment to return their homes to safety.Every time a hurricane clouds the skies over the…

New research by Winnie Kortemeier, professor of geosciences at Western Nevada College, places Tahoe in the pantheon of ancient lakes in the world.

WaterLegacy says state regulators cannot rely on environmental studies conducted a half-century ago. DNR says it has closely studied the massive site known as Mile Post 7 and says it's safe.

Freshwater ecosystems in Canada and around the world are under siege.

Protracted flooding has engulfed the country's Sudd region due to more water entering the Nile upstream, which is driving conflict and disease and is potentially leaving the region uninhabitable.

Like ghosts from the past, sunken villages at the bottom of water reservoirs are not meant to be seen. As an unprecedented drought induced by climate change...

If your tap ran dry and stores closed down, where would you get your freshwater? Water is essential to human life – so important, in fact, that civilizations throughout history have developed around this vital

An international team of researchers led by SMU paleontologist Louis L. Jacobs has found matching sets of Early Cretaceous dinosaur footprints on what are now two different continents.

Los Angeles County is home to multiple freshwater lakes where you can swim, fish, kayak, bird and much more. Here are the best ones.

Officials in Alaska's capital city say roughly 290 residences were damaged last week by flooding from a lake dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier

A landslide in B.C.'s Central Interior blocked a major tributary of the Fraser River overnight Tuesday, prompting evacuation orders, flood warnings and an emergency alert on Wednesday.

Tour guide Eugen Grigorov steered his boat past half-underwater combine harvesters and last year's flooded crops in a part of Romania's Danube Delta reclaimed by the great river.

The fire is moving into areas where salmon are waiting to spawn. Experts worry that the Park Fire could be the deathblow to these fish.