But while bog ecosystems provide habitat, filter water, and store carbon, they have been disappearing for decades. In Illinois alone, more than 90 percent of wetlands have been lost. There are about ...

Besides the sand made of glass, volunteers and coastal scientists will plant marsh grasses, live oaks, bald cypresses and ...

Cleanup is expected to last a month or more after an unknown oil-like substance was found in Kiwanis Lake in York.

An environmental cleanup is underway at York's Kiwanis Lake. Booms and sweeps are being used to contain an unknown oil-like ...

The Donner Lake Deep Cleaning Project has made significant strides in its mission to clear submerged litter and restore the ...

In a study published earlier this month, Karlstrom and Grant estimated there is at least 81 cubic kilometers — or three times the volume of Lake Mead, the United States’ largest reservoir — buried in ...

I want to stay informed! A new study builds on previous research that shows winters on the Great Lakes are growing shorter due to climate change. The Great Lakes have been losing an average of 14 days ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) In fall 2022, extreme heat and precipitation in West Greenland caused approximately 7,500 lakes to turn brown, emit carbon, and degrade in water quality. This ...

Following two months of record heat and precipitation in fall 2022, an estimated 7,500 lakes in West Greenland turned brown, began emitting carbon and decreased in water quality in less than a year.

Jasmine Saros has visited West Greenland every summer since 2011. Saros, a professor of lake ecology at the University of Maine, travels north annually to collect data on the region’s fresh waters.

West Greenland is home to tens of thousands of blue lakes that provide residents drinking water and sequester carbon from the atmosphere. Yet after two months of record heat and precipitation in ...

An overlooked jewel hugging its very own lake—Lake Lugano—the city has long been a haven for writers and artists drawn to its palm tree-lined beauty, Alpine foothills, warm summer weather ...