Limnology (Freshwater)

A colorful look at a forgotten era of Florida tourism.Filled with rare photographs, vintage postcards and advertisements, and fascinating writing f...

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week A subject that could not be more important. A compact classic! Bill McKibben I learned something...

Bayou D'Arbonne Swamp addresses the vibrant natural, cultural, and social history of a north Louisiana swamp. Kelby Ouchley grew up near Bayou D'Ar...

Several years ago, Debbie Bentley visited the Salton Sea for the first time. The area was an oddity, full of dilapidated houses, rotting fish, and...

Unlike many other Georgia rivers that begin their journeys to the sea along the flanks of ridges in the relatively pristine confines of national fo...

More than the lifeblood of our natural world, Texas rivers have nourished the human spirit for as long as people have gathered on their banks. A li...

In the harsh winter of 1779, as the leader of a flotilla of settlers, John Donelson loaded his family and thirty slaves into a forty-foot flatboat ...

While Barton Springs Pool is an iconic landmark of Austin and many people are familiar with the end of Barton Creek and its seven miles of public g...

When Ray Whaley set out to accomplish his bucket-list goal of kayaking the length of the St. Johns River, it didn't take long for him to realize he...

In Down the Wild Cape Fear, novelist and nonfiction writer Philip Gerard invites readers onto the fabled waters of the Cape Fear River and guides t...

John Wesley Powell's 1869 expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers and through the Grand Canyon continues to be one of the most celebrated adv...

In a lyrical mix of natural science, history, and memoir, Melissa L. Sevigny ponders what it means to make a home in the American Southwest at a ti...

The poor quality of water, as well as its restricted supply and availability, is one of the biggest challenges of our time, with presently two-fift...

Lakes and reservoirs hold about 90% of the world''s surface fresh water, but overuse, water withdrawal and pollution of these bodies puts some one ...

The story is the Columbia River, not the canoe and me, but Ive learned that friends cant hear me tell about the river until they know why I was out...