Nearly 23,000 freshwater species studied are facing a multitude of threats. Nearly a quarter of the world's freshwater species are at risk of extinction, according to new research. A detailed ...

Lake Victoria, the world's second-largest freshwater lake by surface area, is bordered by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The key threats identified to species were pollution, overfishing, agriculture ...

Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes, and other freshwater habitats face extinction, according to a new study published Wednesday in Nature.. Researchers found that 24 percent of ...

Freshwater Animals Are More Fragile Than Thought, With Nearly a Quarter Threatened With Extinction, Study Finds Species in Lake Victoria, Lake Titicaca, Sri Lanka’s Wet Zone and the Western ...

More than 90% of popular freshwater fish in Southern California are carrying human-infecting parasites, researchers say. This poses a significant danger for those who like to eat freshly caught ...

To understand how common this risk might be, the researchers studied 125 YouTube videos of people preparing and eating freshwater fish. These videos had nearly 5 million total views.

Almost a quarter of freshwater creatures, from fish to dragonflies, are at a high risk of extinction worldwide, scientists have warned. The global assessment of freshwater animals on the ...

A UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography study published Tuesday found that more than 90% of freshwater game fish in Southern California had parasites capable of infecting humans and ...