NASA images show water pollution following Hurricane Florence
Rainfall from Hurricane Florence flooded rivers across North Carolina in September 2018. Nearly eight trillion gallons of rain fell during the storm, causing both organic and industrial waste to flow into the Atlantic Ocean. Pollution levels were so high that NASA satellite cameras captured images of the event from space.…
Why the source of the Amazon River remains a mystery
Rivers are powerful and mysterious bodies of water that shape our lives in more ways than one. Finding a river’s source is difficult to define. Traditionally there are two ways geographers and explorers go about defining a rivers source: the most distant point upstream that provides the largest volume of…
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Wiley: Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems: Table of Contents
Table of Contents for Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. List of articles from both the latest and EarlyView issues.
RT @cardiffuni: #CardiffUni’s @SteveOrmerod is among scientists urging immediate action to protect the world’s freshwater species and habit…
(about 2 days ago)RT @freshwaterblog: Insect populations on German stream have declined by 81% since 1960s due to climate change. We report on a major new s…
(about 3 days ago)RT @insetoAmazonico: Assim como na Alemanha, no Brasil a população de insetos aquáticos em riachos têm declinado numa velocidade espantosam…
(about 6 days ago)@swarmofthought @phaase @Jourdan_Jonas @pilofr Also featuring some excellent #vintagefreshwaterresearch images. https://t.co/I1usttJSLC
(about 7 days ago)
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