A new report finds 325 migratory fish species in urgent need of help, including some of the world’s most iconic freshwater giants.
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Shifting the law to treat rivers as legal ‘persons’ rather than economic assets could offer a radical new way to hold polluters to account.
As beavers reshape rivers, wetlands become a natural storage system for carbon.
Carp is a prized table fish in Europe but despised in Australia. How did we get here?
Rivers support billions of people but are among the least protected parts of nature. A major review shows what needs to be done as climate change accelerates.
This year, UNESCO will conduct a fact-finding mission to decide on Wood Buffalo National Park’s World Heritage status.
Deep beneath the Rockies, a huge slab of crust ‘dripped’ into the mantle. It changed America forever.
Levees protect more than 7 million buildings in the US today, yet they got a D-plus grade in 2025. A new study found 487 cases where rising water overtopped levees in the past 15 years.
Gold was the first attraction, but late in the 1500s the Portuguese became obsessed with the idea that there were silver mines in Africa.
From concrete walls to living edges, the Thames is being reshaped to support fish, wildlife, and a healthier urban river.
Bangladesh’s ratification of the UN Water Convention could increase the nation’s legal clout in transboundary water governance.
The floods’ death toll was the result of weather and human factors.
Water scientist Patrick Byrne tells The Conversation Weekly podcast what testing rivers can reveal about the biggest, often hidden, sources of PFAS pollution.
Bad news for the rivers and the lakes that we’re used to.
River heat waves are rising faster than the pace of air heat waves. That’s a problem for fish, drinking water quality, and food and energy production.
Climate change and overuse are creating a crisis for south Asia’s most important river.
Recent studies have demonstrated that eRNA, previously considered too unstable for field use, can be reliably detected in freshwater ecosystems.
A new tool aims to help scientists decode what underwater river sounds really mean.
Restoring the basin to health requires more than just more water. Coordinated local efforts to restore rivers and the surrounding land are desperately needed.
A forever chemical known as TFA is accumulating in our environment, contaminating our rivers, food and even our wine.
Top contributors
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
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Principal Research Scientist in Ecosystem Ecology, CSIRO
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Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
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Honorary Fellow in Environmental Sciences, Swansea University
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Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW
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Honorary Research Fellow in Hydromorphology, University of Salford
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Professor, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University
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Beatrix Beisner is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Aquatic ecology; Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en limnologie (GRIL), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Professor Emeritus of Geography, Louisiana State University
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Professor of River Science and Climate Resilience, University of Salford
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Research fellow, Charles Sturt University
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Executive Director and Professor of Fisheries and River Management, Gulbali Institute (Agriculture, Water and Environment), Charles Sturt University, Charles Sturt University
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Professor in Environmental Hydraulics, Cardiff University