Freshwater covers less than 1% of the Earth’s surface but has an outsized impact on global ecosystems, supporting more than 10% of all known species, reports the World Wildlife Fund. Freshwater environments such as rivers and wetlands...
Among the dozens of publicly protected national parks, hundreds of wilderness areas, and thousands of state parks in the contiguous U.S., none are larger than the Adirondack Park, a 6 million-acre wilderness area that spreads across upstate...
Gar, long considered a trash fish, are newly valued by science and fishermen around the country.
Shedd Aquarium and Northwestern Engineering students team up to find innovative new tech for studying animal behavior in the wild.
Butterflies, deer, turtles, salamanders, frogs, fish and birds are some of the many species being monitored at Five Rivers MetroParks.
A commercial eDNA kit enables almost anyone, including citizen scientists, to monitor even rare aquatic species in a less intrusive, more effective way.