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Freshwater Ecosystem
Freshwater ecosystems offer an especially rich diversity of habitat conditions, plants and animal species. It refers to the water found in lakes, ponds, streams, and any other body of water other than the sea.
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APR 07, 2018Earth & The Environment
Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts was made famous by Henry David Thoreau after his experience of living shore-side ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanDEC 30, 2017Earth & The Environment
Using streams to monitor the health of an ecosystem has been in the scientist’s toolbox for a while now. That&rsqu ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 18, 2017Plants & Animals
Both alligators and sharks are renowned for their predatory statuses in the animal kingdom, but when they come together ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 16, 2017Earth & The Environment
We are only just starting to understand the impacts of the hurricanes that plundered the southern United States and Puer ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 16, 2017Plants & Animals
Throughout history, humans have relocated animals from one part of the world to another. Sometimes the relations are on ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 12, 2017Plants & Animals
Although evolution is a widely-accepted concept in the scientific community, some of its aspects haven’t been stud ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 10, 2017Plants & Animals
In many freshwater lakes around the world, carp are a common sight. These bottom-feeding fish can grow anywhere between ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 27, 2017Videos
In northern China's Hebei Province, the largest freshwater area is known as the Baiyangdian Wetlands. It's popular with ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 17, 2017Earth & The Environment
The Amazon River Basin, which contains 20% of the world’s freshwater and covers more than 6.1 million square kilom ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 30, 2017Earth & The Environment
Generating energy from estuaries, the meeting of rivers and oceans, is possible because of the difference in salt concen ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 30, 2017Plants & Animals
Goldfish are among some of the world’s most popular species of pet fish, but despite popular belief, it’s ge ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 17, 2017Earth & The Environment
A study released from University of Alaska oceanographer, Igor Polyakov, has recently been published in Science with con ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAR 07, 2017Microbiology
New work published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology suggests that bacteria present at very small levels in the ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 16, 2016Microbiology
If you don’t love amoebas, there’s something wrong with you. Amoebas are adorable, little single-cell ...Written By: Kerry EvansNOV 13, 2016Microbiology
Researchers have demonstrated that the consumption of prey by predators can stimulate a cyclical increase and decrease i ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 31, 2016Plants & Animals
Often times when pet fish owners get tired of being pet fish owners, they’ll dump their pets into the local wild w ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 15, 2016Microbiology
Researchers from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Georgia Institute of Technology identified potentially-path ...Written By: Kerry EvansFEB 14, 2016Microbiology
Cyanobacteria have the unique ability to move towards light, a process called phototaxis. According to microbiologists I ...Written By: Kerry EvansMAR 17, 2015Earth & The Environment
A controversial canal that would connect the Pacific and Atlantic oceans across Nicaragua has environmental scientists c ...Written By: Will HectorFEB 25, 2015Earth & The Environment
Over the past few decades, rainforests have come to be rock stars, of a sort, in the scientific community. Extensively s ...Written By: Jennifer Ellis
APR 07, 2018
Earth & The Environment
Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts was made famous by Henry David Thoreau after his experience of living shore-side
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
DEC 30, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Using streams to monitor the health of an ecosystem has been in the scientist’s toolbox for a while now. That&rsqu
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 18, 2017
Plants & Animals
Both alligators and sharks are renowned for their predatory statuses in the animal kingdom, but when they come together
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 16, 2017
Earth & The Environment
We are only just starting to understand the impacts of the hurricanes that plundered the southern United States and Puer
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 16, 2017
Plants & Animals
Throughout history, humans have relocated animals from one part of the world to another. Sometimes the relations are on
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 12, 2017
Plants & Animals
Although evolution is a widely-accepted concept in the scientific community, some of its aspects haven’t been stud
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 10, 2017
Plants & Animals
In many freshwater lakes around the world, carp are a common sight. These bottom-feeding fish can grow anywhere between
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 27, 2017
Videos
In northern China's Hebei Province, the largest freshwater area is known as the Baiyangdian Wetlands. It's popular with
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 17, 2017
Earth & The Environment
The Amazon River Basin, which contains 20% of the world’s freshwater and covers more than 6.1 million square kilom
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 30, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Generating energy from estuaries, the meeting of rivers and oceans, is possible because of the difference in salt concen
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 30, 2017
Plants & Animals
Goldfish are among some of the world’s most popular species of pet fish, but despite popular belief, it’s ge
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 17, 2017
Earth & The Environment
A study released from University of Alaska oceanographer, Igor Polyakov, has recently been published in Science with con
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 07, 2017
Microbiology
New work published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology suggests that bacteria present at very small levels in the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 16, 2016
Microbiology
If you don’t love amoebas, there’s something wrong with you. Amoebas are adorable, little single-cell
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
NOV 13, 2016
Microbiology
Researchers have demonstrated that the consumption of prey by predators can stimulate a cyclical increase and decrease i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 31, 2016
Plants & Animals
Often times when pet fish owners get tired of being pet fish owners, they’ll dump their pets into the local wild w
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 15, 2016
Microbiology
Researchers from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Georgia Institute of Technology identified potentially-path
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
FEB 14, 2016
Microbiology
Cyanobacteria have the unique ability to move towards light, a process called phototaxis. According to microbiologists I
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
MAR 17, 2015
Earth & The Environment
A controversial canal that would connect the Pacific and Atlantic oceans across Nicaragua has environmental scientists c
...
Written By:
Will Hector
FEB 25, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Over the past few decades, rainforests have come to be rock stars, of a sort, in the scientific community. Extensively s
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis