Thanks to their use of a unique methodology, a McGill-led research team has obtained new insights into how boulders affect ...

Drought due to climate change and other extreme events such as wildfire and floods challenge drinking water utilities’ ability to treat water to meet regulatory and public health protection goals, ...

UC Santa Cruz graduate student Amanda Donaldson installs a lysimeter in Arbor Creek’s soils. The instrument enables scientists to sample the water held between soil particles. The amount of vacuum ...

The conversion of cropland to the production of woody biomass, or short-rotation woody crops (SRWCs), has the potential to provide an economic alternative to Midwestern farmers, while simultaneously ...

The blow of late summer drought could have been lessened and perhaps avoided if the forests around those watersheds that provide drinking water had been kept intact, according to Casey Kulla, a state ...

What would you pick as top concerns for protecting Canandaigua Lake? Factors include everything from invasive species to agriculture, fish kills to blue-green algae, as well as contamination from ...

After getting a chemistry lesson last week from scientists explaining how development can affect the chemical composition of the Mattawoman watershed, members of the Charles County Board of ...

AWI, as it is known, directs its efforts in three main programs: monitoring water quality and changes at its state-certified laboratory; intercepting invasive species at 60 boat-washing stations; and ...

After a major project to clean up the Snake River watershed due to acid mine drainage from the Pennsylvania Mine, project members say the effort can serve as a model for other communities to restore ...

CHIMACUM — Like rain falling in the mountains, collecting in rivulets and flowing into streams that flow into the sea, concerns about water quality and water rights have been coalescing in the pool of ...