When you’re getting ready to cast your fishing line, are you adding a bobber, float or strike indicator? Bobbers have come a long way from being just a plastic red and white ball sitting a couple feet ...

Everyone needs safe and clean water to drink. Yet industry, agriculture and urban activities threaten fresh water. In particular, metal pollution can be very hard to detect early. Because of this, ...

People think of elephants, tigers and sharks as a bellwether for how the environment is doing, but monster fish, two dozen species of large freshwater fish weighing more than 200 pounds, are an ...

For many years, regulatory agencies have used chemical standards to assess water quality. Now, researchers are discovering how biological criteria can complement chemical standards to assess the ...

Julia Polo, Lucía López-López, Georg H. Engelhard, Antonio Punzón, Manuel Hidalgo, Louise A. Rutterford, Marta Sainz Bariáin, José Manuel González-Irusta, Antonio Esteban, Encarnación García, Miguel ...

Earth Today: Fish could be best indicators of global climatic trends The best indicator of what's happening to global climate could turn out to be fish, scientists said Thursday. According to ...

Water quality in rivers and dams is decaying all over the world, and metal pollution is a major factor. Meanwhile, freshwater resources are very limited. A tiny fish louse shows promise as a sensitive ...

Blacksburg, Va. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved a new partnership with Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources to improve the way the Clean Water Act is implemented ...