Underwater lake heatwaves are on the rise, threatening aquatic life: A view of Lake Superior, one of the Great Lakes. Travis J. Camp/Shutterstock Lakes are essential to ecosystems, providing freshwater, supporting biodiversity and offering crucial habitat for fish and other aquatic species. But a recent study by my colleagues and I shows that lakes around …
Africa’s large aquatic animals are being hunted and traded: we assessed the scale: Hawksbill turtle. Photo by Jonas Gratzer/LightRocket via GettyImages Across most of the world, and particularly in the tropics and subtropics, large wild aquatic animals – such as manatees, turtles and dolphins – are being hunted and traded. This is not a new …
Aquatic sports Camps – Sandsharks – a Sport interest event taking place on 2019-09-16 00:00:00 in United States at Waltham Boys & Girls Club 20 Exchange St Waltham United States – Add your South African Event here. Have you tried: Visiting Port Elizabeth?
Aquatic Cultures and the Digital Environmental Humanities (ACDEH) – a Culture interest event taking place on 2019-08-09 09:00:00 in Ireland Event outline The relationship between water and culture is a vast societal challenge that dissolves discipline, time, and place, requiring a unified and nuanced response. The digitally-assisted and augmented environmental humanities has a growing role …
Fossil find offers first evidence of four-legged aquatic ancestors in Africa: An artist's impression of Tutusius at Waterloo Farm. Illustration by Maggie Newman Some of our ancestors had four legs, a finned tail and lived in water. They were aquatic tetrapods which, after the end of the Devonian period 359 million years ago, increasingly moved …