The National Marine Fisheries Service Systematics Laboratory in Washington DC completed the first global assessment of high value seafood with some startling results. 7 species of commercially valuable fish, such as Blue marlin, Spanish Mackrel and Atlantic Bluefin Tuna have been elevated to vulnerable or critically endangered status.
The Environmental Protection Agency has just awarded $4,508,572 in grants to various Ohio organizations and universities under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which seeks to sanitize the Great Lakes and bolster its habitats.
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency needs volunteers to help keep the state’s rivers and streams clean. The Citizen Stream Monitoring Program (CSMP) enables Minnesota residents to serve as an extended arm of the MPCA.
For years, Pavilion Lake in B.C., Canada has been acknowledged as one of the most morphologically diverse sites for the assortment of freshwater microorganisms by local divers. But for the last seven years, Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP) scientists have made it their mission to study and discover the role modern microbialites have had in forming sedimentary rock and determining how some of the same microorganisms that helped create these structures survived the brutal journey to Earth.
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Spring 2025 Environmental Monitor Available NowMay 7, 2025
Research Brief: CyanoHABs Forecasting in Satellite Monitored LakesMay 5, 2025
Supplying Seattle’s Drinking Water: Using Data Buoys to Monitor the Cedar River Municipal WatershedApril 30, 2025
Research Brief: Threats to High-Mountain Lakes in the AlpsApril 28, 2025