Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

Millions of people rely on freshwater fish for food and as a source of income through angling and the pet trade ... and The Nature Conservancy. In UK waters, the sturgeon and the burbot have ...

Freshwater fisheries are also under pressure - pollution, excessive water abstraction, dams and other infrastructure, sand mining, and land-use change (e.g., loss of floodplains) threaten their ...

The "flood pulse,” a natural process of periodic flooding and droughts in the river system helped make the Mekong Basin the world’s largest freshwater ... living in fishing communities around ...

The simple answer is... it's complicated. The largest freshwater lake in the UK supplies half of Belfast's drinking water and 40% of Northern Ireland's overall. It is also home to the largest ...

Fishing in the close season, without a licence and using an illegal bait has led to prosecutions for two brothers. Fisheries ...

Of the more ‘natural’ ecosystems, mountain, moorland and heath cover 11% of UK land and freshwater, wetlands and floodplains just 5%. The remainder of the UK consists of woods, grasslands and ...

Many of these national parks offer a wide array of activities you might not know about, including incredible freshwater ...

Population density assessments and time series studies on the response of coastal lichens in the UK to environmental change. Cryptic diversity (closely related taxa which cannot be distinguished by ...

The freshwater fishing season is now open and anglers can expect to reel in a good number of healthy, big trout or salmon throughout the country. Fish and Game's chief executive said about 130,000 ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. It is estimated that almost 3 million people go fishing in the UK every year. Angling can provide a welcome relief from life, ...

The Horowhenua Freshwater Anglers Club celebrates its 20th birthday this year. Pictured here are members enjoying a day out fishing in the upper Manawatū River near the club's hut at Oringi.