leading to eutrophication and water quality degradation. A recent study, published in Microorganisms, introduces a novel solution—the "Four Ponds and Two Dams" constructed wetland system ...

One of the most significant risks of standing water is bacterial contamination. Lakes and ponds are often home to bacteria ...

which are archaea or single-celled organisms that thrive in highly salty bodies of water. Bret Wolfe, a manager at the Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge, told the Associated Press that after ...

And as she's discovered, there's a lot of it. This is water from a garden pond in Bushwick, Brooklyn. It contains single-celled organisms called coleps which are caught up in a dance. It almost ...

The Sellafield outdoor pond was colonised by a seasonal “bloom” of microorganisms dominated by the alga Haematococcus, which can accumulate high levels of radioactive isotopes in the water. This ...

a pond ecosystem may consist of a pond habitat, inhabited by aquatic plants, microorganisms in the mud at the bottom, fish in the water and a heron on the bank. If one part of an ecosystem is ...

In 300 years, we have gone from observing mixed species in a drop of pond water to isolating and studying individual bacteria to sequencing all species in a sample of seawater. In the process ...