Human activities add large quantities of nitrogen to the environment, much of which gets washed into streams and rivers.

In the face of climate change and worsening cycles of drought, California water managers have been increasingly focused on the precise tracking of water resources. Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada is ...

Like cows and humans, even our rivers can be gassy. A “Nature” paper co-authored by researchers at the Yale School of the Environment last month quantified the methane contributions of all the world’s ...

On the last weekend of August 2011, Stephen Farrington of Stockbridge took his family to stay at his parents’ house in Burlington ahead of Tropical Storm Irene. At the time, his major concern was the ...

Beneath the ice on small streams across Pennsylvania, thousands of species of fish, insects, snails, and mussels are waiting ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — After a weekend winter storm, there is another concern. All of northeastern and central Pennsylvania is under a flood watch. We have seen this scenario in our area many times ...