It’s tiny, it’s silver and it’s at the center of a decades-long controversy over California’s water system. It’s the delta smelt. This threatened fish lives exclusively in the Sacramento-San Joaquin ...
While fresh, clean water is vital for all life on land, freshwater ecosystems are some of the most ... Decapods are a large group of crustaceans that include crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp and ...
collected from water samples. Of these, 34 species appear to live only in the Alto Mayo landscape or the San Martín region. The new species include a squirrel representing an entirely new genus ...
Access to water is particularly important for survival ... Nearly 30,000 Wild Species Identified in US ... 26, 2024 — 'Specialist' lifeforms that live under Arctic sea ice are at risk as the ...
The key factors behind these alarming trends include pollution from agriculture and urban runoff; habitat loss caused by land conversion, dam construction, water extraction; and the spread of invasive ...