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Rising concern about possible environmental damage from the active ingredients in sunscreens could have ripple effects on public health if it causes people to use less of them.
Approximately 8,000 merchant vessels travel the St. Lawrence each year. Its ports have become the catalysts that link trade, development and industrial innovation.
Federal Labor has pledged to deliver the Murray Darling Basin Plan. But a new report casts serious doubt on that promise.
Migratory fish populations have collapsed worldwide in the last 50 years.
Giving rivers rights would enable custodians to perform legal acts on the river’s behalf.
Zebra and quagga mussels entered the Great Lakes in large ships’ ballast water. Now, local boaters and anglers are spreading them into the southern and western US.
The project threatens catastrophic harm to one of the world’s most important river systems, and the people who depend on it.
Russia’s military machine is finding the terrain in the Donbas region extremely challenging.
Estuaries shelter and offer respite to countless species of birds, fish and mammals.
Millions of people around the world live on river deltas and are vulnerable when those rivers shift direction. A new study shows why and where these events, called avulsions, happen.
The Colorado River provides water and electricity to 40 million people in the western US, but falling water levels threaten both of those resources.
Agreements negotiated a century ago to share water on Western rivers among states are showing their age in a time of water scarcity.
When Indigenous peoples lose their river flow to dams, satellite programs like Landsat – which is celebrating its 50th anniversary – can help them fight for their resources.
Cleaning and reoxygenating the river Thames has helped its biodiversity surge, but there’s still more to be done to make it healthy.
Residents and businesses are considering leaving Lismore for good. The town is now on the brink.
New research investigating the yabby diets found just how crucial these crayfish are to aquatic ecosystems.
While climate change poses new threats to trees, it also creates new opportunities for us to work with trees as allies. We must not work against them.
Tree rings are ‘nature’s weather stations’ and reveal far more of the Daly River’s history than scientific records can.
For over 40 years, a coal mine on the outskirts of the Blue Mountains World Heritage area dumped poorly treated wastewater into the Wollangambe River. Finally, it’s on the road to recovery.
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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