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...
While human infrastructure, urbanization, and industrialization have advanced human societies, the natural environment has suffered due to constructed impediments and deteriorating architecture. In order to combat this degradation, habitat restoration programs across the US work to remove...
American Rivers and its partners such as The Nature Conservancy team up to remove dams all over the country that are no longer needed and restore natural habitat.