Its name, Rotomairewhenua, was given by the Ngāti Apa, a local Māori tribe. The name’s meaning: the lake of peaceful lands. To New Zealanders, and to the Māori, the small body of water is sacred and ...

Tourists visiting Nelson Lakes National Park in New Zealand are now required to clean their shoes before entering Lake ...

Cyanobacteria thrive in warm, sunny lakes and ponds that contain excess nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients derived from ...

It’s also the No. 1 source of under- and unregulated pollution in the Great Lakes. “It’s causing toxic algae blooms in various parts of the lakes,” he said. “It’s causing huge rural ...

CONCORDIA, Argentina - First a river ran blood red. Now Argentina’s beloved giant rodent, the capybara, has been coated in ...

A specialized sponge created by researchers at Northwestern University that works to slurp up pollutants, and then release ...

Officials are hoping you may not have to worry about toxic blue-green algae in Lake Norman with the help of a four-year ...

Decades of work and millions of dollars have gone into restoring Lake Apopka, but now hundreds of dead fish are showing up ...

LOCAR is a proposed reservoir to hold 65.17 billion gallons of Lake Okeechobee water, some of which gets discharged to the St ...

When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...