Okyere is a student in the lab of Dr. Jennifer Goff in the Department of Chemistry, where he is researching how microplastics can carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria in aquatic ecosystems. His work ...

A benthic aquatic macroinvertebrate is a small creature that does not have a backbone and lives at the bottom of a body of ...

Every year 19-23 million tonnes of plastic waste leaks into aquatic ecosystems, polluting lakes ... like climate change, ecosystem degradation and resource use.

Groundwater plays an important role in sustaining aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems ... scale analysis based on a set of rules that describe potential for groundwater/ecosystem interaction and ...

In mid-January, a team of scientists were sailing aboard a research vessel in frigid Antarctic waters. They planned to investigate an unexplored section of the Bellingshausen Sea and the creatures ...

Back in January, a massive chunk of ice the size of Chicago broke off from an ice sheet on Antarctica’s coast. Exploring the waters this oversized block of ice once covered, scientists found — to ...

The Vancouver Park Board has voted to proceed with a replacement for the Vancouver Aquatic Centre that includes a smaller, 25-metre lap pool. The aging, five-decade-old facility is currently home ...

When the fur trade wiped out North America’s sea otters in the early 20th century, sea urchins—a favorite otter food— ...

While many high school students spend their days in classrooms, these students are gaining hands-on experience, working ...

And because this is one of the lowest tides this August, the water has drawn back like a curtain to expose an ecosystem ...

The first stop in our biome series is the aquatic biome. This broad biome can be broken down into different categories such ...