The forests around the ancient Lake Poso in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province are being lost to mining, oil palm plantations and smallholder farm expansion, threatening both unique species ...

Our research provides a timeframe for the presence of a small freshwater lake that once existed in the Namib Sand Sea. This lake was fed by an ancient river and is surrounded by a rich record of stone ...

An curved arrow pointing right. An ancient salt lake in China's Shanxi province has turned pink and green. Scientists say tens of thousands of an unusual species of algae fill up the lake and ...

CHICAGO— A federal court has ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to make a determination by 2024 whether imperiled populations of lake sturgeon will be protected under the Endangered Species ...

A great number of ancient ... others of their species, soon degenerate, and dwindle into the savagefstate. It is therefore quite possible that the old copper miners of the Lake Superior region ...

Several millennia ago, western Utah was covered by the ancient Lake Bonneville. Today its broad alluvial desert basins are scattered with springs still teeming with life. The colorful, pocket-sized ...