Topping the list of Canada’s huge lakes is Lake Superior. Shared with the United States, the lake covers over 82,100 square ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Freshwater ecosystems, covering less than 1% of Earth's surface, are crucial for biodiversity and human needs but face significant threats. Nearly 24% of ...

Freshwater ecosystems cover less than 1% of Earth’s surface, but are vital for life on this planet. New research reveals that damage to these environments is pushing freshwater animals to the edge of ...

These are all species that live in freshwater habitats such as rivers and lakes. But according to a new report, nearly one quarter of the world's freshwater species are under the threat of extinction.

“We face a vicious cycle,” Tharman Shanmugaratnam, president of Singapore, told us during the GAEA Awards held in the Forum’s ...

“That’s quite an alarming percentage.” Although freshwater covers less than 1 percent of the Earth’s surface, it supports 10 percent of the planet’s known animal species, including ...

Freshwater environments cover about 1% of Earth's surface while accounting for more than 10% of known species. Like many marine and terrestrial ecosystems, however, they are in distress.

Canada has close to a third of the world’s freshwater. It is the second-largest country in the world by land mass but has a population of just less than 41 million people — roughly the same as ...