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In Biodiversity

Lakes

  • A permafrost slump, the size of a football stadium, on the shore of an unnamed lake in the Canadian Arctic.

    How Thawing Permafrost Is Beginning to Transform the Arctic

    By Ed Struzik

  • Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health

    By Jim Robbins

  • A worker collects sand at a mine near Port au Prince, Haiti in April 2014.

    Development

    The Hidden Environmental Toll of Mining the World’s Sand

    By Fred Pearce

  • Partially submerged houses in Kerala, India last August.

    Water

    In India, Nature’s Power Overwhelms Engineered Wetlands

    By Fred Pearce

  • Fish tanks in the basement of a home in Erie, Colorado containing dozens of threatened species, including some that are extinct in the wild.

    Basement Preservationists: Can Hobbyists Save Rare Fish from Extinction?

    By Adam Welz

  • A man collects snails amid a nitrogen-fueled algae bloom in China's eastern Jiangsu province.

    Can the World Find Solutions to the Nitrogen Pollution Crisis?

    By Fred Pearce

  • Nile tilapia, shown in an African market, are increasingly found in waters throughout sub-Saharan Africa far from their native range.

    How Aquaculture Is Threatening the Native Fish Species of Africa

    By Adam Welz

  • People in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri gather along the seasonal Ngadda River, which feeds into Lake Chad. 

    How Big Water Projects Helped Trigger Africa’s Migrant Crisis

    By Fred Pearce

  • Conservation

    Beyond Biodiversity: A New Way of Looking at How Species Interconnect

    By Jim Robbins

  • Technology

    A Splash of River Water Now Reveals the DNA of All Its Creatures

    By Jim Robbins

  • Farmers remove thousands of dead fish from floating cages in the Lake Toba town of Haranggaol in May 2016. The fish died overnight from a lack of oxygen in the water.

    Photo Essay

    How Pollution is Devastating an Indonesian Lake

    By Binsar Bakkara

  • Misuse of Mosquito Nets Stressing Lake Malawi’s Fish Populations

    By Ray Mwareya

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