The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) held its 2019 meeting, Planet Water Challenges and Successes, from February 23rd to March 2nd in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

On April 17th, 1969, the Cuyahoga River caught fire, making plain what effect 150 years of industrial degradation was having on the American landscape. A heartland river, vital to the magnificent Great Lakes ecosystem, had been polluted to the point of combustion.

When the 2018 Thanksgiving week rains finally came to help firefighters contain the Camp Fire, the most destructive and deadliest wildfire in California’s history, Butte Creek ran dark brown.

Although most welcome spring with open arms, warmer months tend to bring increased algal growth. Algal blooms not only affect the water in which they bloom, but they also affect the organisms in and around that water.

Over the course of the 2017/18 southern hemisphere summer, 20 miniDOT loggers were deployed by researchers from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in Hamilton, New Zealand.

Debris-strewn beaches, seabird skeletons filled with plastic bottle caps, turtles deformed by six-pack rings: These are familiar images of plastic pollution.

As the people of Houston and the Gulf Coast begin to recover what was not destroyed by Hurricane Harvey, meteorologists are astonished by the power and scale of Hurricane Irma.

Just two years ago, 50 percent of California was still under exceptional drought conditions.