Eutrophication is a leading cause of impairment of many freshwater and coastal marine ecosystems in the world. Why should we worry about eutrophication and how is this problem managed? Eutrophication ...

Farmers’ routine application of chemical fertilizers and manure to the land poses a far greater environmental problem to freshwater lakes than previously thought, potentially polluting the water for ...

Nepal, being a landlocked country with no direct access to seas and oceans, has immense source of freshwater with applicable potential. However, we have been facing serious environmental problems ...

The mathematician also has an interest in environmental issues, based largely on an old Internet site that fans hysteria over one particular substance. “Dihydrogen monoxide,” Neal P. Carpenter told me ...

These are low-oxygen areas in the oceans and lakes across the world where aquatic life cannot survive. Only a few organisms can survive in hypoxic conditions, and other needs oxygen to survive, hence, ...

Continued eutrophication of the Baltic Sea, combined with an ever thinner ozone layer, is favouring the toxic cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena, reveals research from the University of Gothenburg, ...

Jeremy Hance writes about how jellyfish could come to dominate the world’s oceans Overfishing has removed fish from marine ecosystems at astounding rates, which has opened the door for jellyfish to ...

If climate change is not curbed, increased precipitation could substantially overload waterways in the United States with excess nitrogen, according to a new study published July 28 in the journal ...

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