Amid historic drought, a new water war in the West
A drought crisis has erupted in the Klamath Basin along the California-Oregon border, with fish dying en masse and farmers infuriated that they have been...
Land use tied to ‘intersex’ smallmouth bass in Bay rivers
Scientists are still trying to sort out exactly what’s causing sexual abnormalities among smallmouth bass in Chesapeake Bay rivers, but they may be getting closer...
Ocean warming has seafloor species headed in the wrong direction
As the world warms, many species of plant and animal will have to find new – often cooler – places to live. But things are...
Northern Fish Are Tough, but No Match for Climate Change
By Alyssa Murdoch, Chrystal Mantyka-Pringle and Sapna Sharma Summer has finally arrived in the northern reaches of Canada and Alaska, liberating hundreds of thousands of...Warming oceans deter more fish from spawning
When the moment to mate arrives, fish like to play it cool. So warming oceans create special problems for the generation game. The post Warming...
Asian carp have never breached a body of freshwater the size of Lake Michigan.
As Asian carp have stormed up the Illinois River in the past several decades, looming precariously close to Lake Michigan, scientists have been forced to ponder...
‘Eco-anxiety’: how to spot it and what to do about it
Feeling overwhelmed by the existential challenge of climate change? You’re not alone
Climate change impacts on fisheries
Food security, climate change, and their complex and uncertain interactions are a major challenge for societies and ecologies (1). Global assessments of predicted changes in...