Dengue fever is here in Florida, prompting several Florida counties to issue a state of emergency for the mosquito-borne disease.

The gushing groundwater that fills crystalline swimming holes in North Central Florida temporarily stopped flowing at nine springs this year. Humans are partly to blame.

Native aquatic plants help keep lakes healthy, reduce erosion and are a safeguard against invasive species. Yet they get a bad rap as a nuisance, and property owners often remove them with chemicals o...

"Just remember to leave the pond debris on the shore for an hour so any friends living in it can get back in the water!"

A North Carolina teenager is critically ill from a rare brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, that's found in warm freshwater, state health officials said.

The aquatic plant can double its population in less than three weeks. The city is working to remove it.

Orlando is currently running 15.29 inches below its average rainfall for this point in the year.

“We have shown we can reduce herbicide rates by three fourths of what they normally use and we can reduce those numbers of applications from say five in a year to one or two a year.”

Contaminated irrigation or processing water is more likely the source of the Cyclospora outbreak. There are many systemic failures, outlined here.

Pervasive plastic contamination and flawed analytical techniques have clouded the science on microplastics in the human body. In an interview, Australian scientist Cassandra Rauert, who built a plastic-free lab to study human exposure, explores the challenges for researchers.

Recorded populations of the northeastern bulrush grew more than elevenfold, but researchers say the plant is not out of the woods yet.

How can Britain - and the world - prepare itself for extreme heat?

Following the death of a paddleboarder at Lake Marburg in York County, experts are warning of other dangers to look out for across our waterways.

The project is aimed at fighting one of South Florida’s most aggressive invasive species.

Climate change is causing rivers to slowly lose oxygen, threatening fish and other life in the waterways, a new study shows.

The findings could lead to aquatic plant management strategies that help mitigate the release of gases such as methane, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide.

Researchers at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) have used long-term data from the Spree River to discover that aquatic plants can compensate for declining water l...