A white sturgeon is held on a boat after being caught by state fishery officials in 2016 in San Pablo Bay. The largest freshwater fish in North America, which was once abundant in California’s major rivers and San Francisco Bay, has declined in numbers to a point that state officials will consider whether to protect the fish as a threatened …
Spooked by a historic drought, local authorities in China have renewed controversial plans to dam the country's biggest freshwater lake. Migratory birds at the dried-up freshwater Poyang Lake in Juijiang, China's central Jiangxi province. Conservationist Zhang Daqian said that if realised, the 3,000-metre-long sluice gate across one of the lake's channels would cut it off from the river Yangtze, "leaving …
