Hydrology/Water Resources

Credit: University of York Concentrations of antibiotics found in some of the world's rivers exceed 'safe' levels by up to 300 times, the first ever global study has discovered. Researchers looked for 14 commonly used antibiotics in…

Lakes may shrink and some may disappearCredit: Figure prepared by Rebecca Finger Higgens. Imagery courtesy of Planet Labs, Inc. With climate change, the Arctic tundra is likely to become drier. Lakes may shrink in size and smaller…

The Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology last week revealed the findings of a 2016 pilot study that measured pregnant women's exposure to environmental contaminants in northeastern British Columbia, an area of…

When we drink a glass of water, we ingest an unknown amount of by-products that are formed in the treatment process. And we don't know what many of them are. However using advanced technology, researchers at Linköping University have been…

CORVALLIS, Ore. - A new study finds that the low-cost, extreme draining of a reservoir in Oregon aided downstream migration of juvenile chinook salmon - and led to the gradual disappearance of two species of predatory invasive fish in the…

Researchers say the find shows the importance of salt and Maya salt workers more than 1,000 years agoCredit: Heather McKillop, LSU. Anthropologists discovered a tool made out of high-quality translucent jadeite with an intact…

Study detects new potential threats in waters near Cleveland COLUMBUS, Ohio - Harmful algal blooms pose a unique toxic threat in Lake Erie's central basin, new research has found. Not only do blooms routinely occur in this area, they can…

Credit: Scott Hotaling Changes to alpine streams fed by glaciers and snowfields due to a warming climate threaten to dramatically alter the types of bacteria and other microbes in those streams, according to a research team that included a…

Models implicate sulfate aerosol emissions as the culprit behind widespread drought cycles WASHINGTON-- Rainfall from the Asian summer monsoon has been decreasing over the past 80 years, a decline unprecedented in the last 448 years,…

Credit: Qian et al. Massive, destructive floods such as those caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 are a stark reality in Texas, but so are prolonged ground-cracking droughts. In a perfect world, there would be a way to capture water…