Pesticide contamination in aquatic ecosystems has cascading impacts on organisms throughout trophic levels in the food web.

The pesticide thiacloprid turns out to be more harmful than previously thought. It can disrupt the lives of freshwater invertebrates and their communities, upsetting the balance and functioning of ...

(Beyond Pesticides, May 6, 2025) A study in Ecology Letters finds “severe degradation of ecosystem functioning in the form of loss of organic matter consumption and dramatic shifts in primary ...

Over 3,200 freshwater fish species have been recorded in Africa, with 28 new freshwater fish species described in 2024 alone. Africa has the world's highest per capita catch of freshwater fish: 2.56 ...

Habitat loss and degradation – including fragmentation of rivers by dams and conversion of wetlands for agriculture – account for half of the threats to migratory fishes, followed by over-exploitation ...

A research team from the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) has analyzed the zooplankton communities in the White Nile and Blue Nile in Khartoum. It is the first study ...

Africa’s freshwater fish are disappearing at alarming rates, with a new report from the World Wide Fund for Nature warning that over a quarter of species face extinction. On Lake Victoria, the ...

Fish stocks at sustainable levels fall to 62.4% in 2023, marine fish biomass could decline 30-40% by 2100 under high emissions scenario | Anadolu ...