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To Save An Endangered Prairie Fish, Dried-up Iowa Wetlands Get New Life

Efforts to save the Topeka shiner have restored hundreds of oxbow lakes across Iowa. Now, those wetlands are helping to improve the state’s water quality.

By Anika Jane Beamer

A view of restored oxbow wetland in Johnston, Iowa. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News
The south and west reaches of Lonesome Lake are visibly shallow in this July 2025 photo taken while descending from Jackass Pass. Long reputed to have quality issues related to human waste, the Shoshone National Forest lake is being examined for an E. coli impairment after regulators initially detected fecal bacteria levels several hundred times more than is believed to be safe. Credit: Mike Koshmrl/WyoFile

Wyoming’s Crowded Lonesome Lake Tops EPA’s National Survey for Fecal Contamination

By Mike Koshmrl, WyoFile

Leonardo Buria, the National Parks Northern Patagonia Regional Director of Conservation, holds up a ruler that in 2007 was completely covered by water in Laguna Blanca National Park. Credit: Facundo Scordo

Five Patagonian Lakes Are Rapidly Drying, Study Shows

By Andrés Muedano

A view of an ice-covered Lake Baikal on Ogoy Island in Siberia, Russia. Credit: Sergey Pesterev/CC BY-SA 2.0

As Ice Coverage of Lakes Decreases, Scientists Work to Understand What Happens Under Water in Winter

By Lydia Larsen

Aquatic Ecosystems Aren’t Immune to Wildfire Impacts, Research Shows

By Kiley Price

Sarah Woodbury leads a performance highlighting the migration of Wilson's phalarope during a rally to have the inland shorebird listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act on March 28 in front of the Utah State Capitol. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

How a Tiny Inland Shorebird Could Help Save the Great Salt Lake

By Wyatt Myskow

Aerial view of an abandoned boat on a desert at the site of former Lake Poopó, near Punaca Tinta Maria, Bolivia, taken on October 15, 2022. Credit: Martín Silva/AFP via Getty Images

Warming and Drying Climate Puts Many of the World’s Biggest Lakes in Peril

By Bob Berwyn

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