Ensuring water purity: Mitigating environmental risks and safeguarding human health
April 2025
Water is an indispensable resource for sustaining life, ecosystems, and economic productivity. However, increasing contamination and pollution pose severe threats to global water purity, with significant...
Data centers: an emerging threat to freshwater biodiversity in the United States
Available online 11 February 2026
This study lays the foundation for future research to quantify data center (DC) impacts on freshwater biodiversity in the US. The proliferation of DCs is increasing energy and water stress in the US....
Research advances in the structure, function, and regulation of the gill barrier in teleost fish
April 2023
The gill is an important organ in fish that is involved in various physiological functions, including respiration, filter-feeding, ammonia nitrogen excretion, and osmoregulation. The physiological functions...
Macroinvertebrate responses to stream water quality and the proposed biological monitoring working party index for the Philippines
April 2026
Water quality is a key driver of aquatic ecosystem health and strongly influences macroinvertebrate assemblages. In the Philippines, the relationship between macroinvertebrates and water quality remains...
The dual nature of water hyacinth (Pontederia crassipes): Environmental threats and sustainable solutions
July 2025
The invasive aquatic plant Pontederia crassipes (water hyacinth) presents significant ecological and economic challenges worldwide due to its rapid proliferation and dominance in freshwater ecosystems....
Exploring antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquaculture: What have we learned from Bangladesh?
Available online 14 February 2026
Antibiotics play a critical role in controlling diseases and improving productivity in aquaculture. However, indiscriminate and unregulated use of antibiotics has become a pressing issue globally, contributing...
Toxicity of nano- and microplastics on marine and freshwater fish: A multi-scale perspective from organ systems to cells
October 2026
Nano- and microplastic pollution is increasingly recognized as a global threat to aquatic organisms and human health. These plastics are widespread in both marine and freshwater environments and pose...
Towards a low-carbon footprint: Current status and prospects for aquaculture
October 2024
Aquaculture is one of the fastest-growing agricultural sectors globally and is becoming increasingly important for producing sustainable and healthy diets with relatively low climate impacts. In comparison...
Microplastic concentration in the water column of the Banggai Sea, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Available online 21 January 2026
Microplastic pollution in marine environments has been found from the surface layer to the deep sea. Oceanographic phenomena in the ocean and the tendency of microplastics to sink within the water column...
Advancing aquaculture breeding through genomic selection: models, tools, and challenges
April 2026
Genomic selection (GS) is a powerful breeding tool that utilizes statistical models to predict breeding values for candidate populations by leveraging genotype–phenotype relationships. In contrast to...
Ecosystem functions of freshwater biofilms: Progress and prospects
October 2026
Freshwater biofilms are ubiquitous in freshwater environments and are a common way of life for microorganisms in aquatic environments. Although their impacts on ecosystem function and ecosystem services...
An overview of research efforts to understand the effects of underwater sound on cetaceans
April 2023
Cetaceans are aquatic mammals living in an environment that is more suited for hearing than vision. As such, their sensory systems largely utilize acoustic cues for navigation, communication, foraging,...
Macroinvertebrate-based assessments in Brazilian freshwaters: A systematic review
July 2026
Freshwater ecosystems are increasingly threatened by different human stressors, thereby jeopardizing aquatic biota. Macroinvertebrates are one of the most common bioindicators used worldwide to assess...
Use of aquatic organisms as flagship species in selecting priority areas for conservation
October 2026
Flagship species are widely used to garner support for conservation, but the selection of these taxa often overlooks ecological, social, and cultural criteria, which may limit the effectiveness of conservation...
Taste and odor in water supplies: A review of producers, adverse effects, detection, and mitigation
Available online 2 April 2026
Water quality is deteriorating globally due to human activities and climate change, increasing health risks associated with contaminated drinking water. Odorants, generally referred to as taste and...
Evaluation of different primers of the 18S rRNA gene to profile amoeba communities in environmental samples
August 2022
Amoeboid protists, an assemblage of organisms belonging to different phylogenetic lineages, have drawn increasing attention due to their crucial ecological roles in various environments and their potential...
Applications and challenges of dsRNA-mediated RNAi in aquaculture
October 2026
Aquaculture plays a vital role in the global food supply but continues to face considerable challenges, including frequent disease outbreaks, low production efficiency, and environmental pollution....
Zooplankton species indicate water quality and land use changes in Amazonian streams and ponds
July 2026
In the face of multiple, co-varying environmental threats, measuring anthropogenic impacts and species responses to them is essential for developing biomonitoring programs and for biodiversity conservation....
Methodology for fish biodiversity monitoring with environmental DNA metabarcoding: The primers, databases and bioinformatic pipelines
February 2022
Environmental DNA (eDNA) originates from cellular material shed by organisms into aquatic or terrestrial environments and can be sampled and monitored using metabarcoding technology, which is revolutionizing...
Chinese wisdom and modern innovation of aquaculture
July 2024
Aquaculture originates from ancient Chinese wisdom, and is considered the most efficient food-producing industry. About 70 years ago, New China proposed an industrial approach to fish production and...
Assemblage-based biomonitoring of freshwater ecosystem health via multimetric indices: A critical review and suggestions for improving their applicability
August 2022
Freshwater biota are more comprehensive and direct indicators of biological impacts, and more meaningful to the public than water quality or physical habitat surrogates. Freshwater biotic data and the...
Rhodolith beds and their ecosystem services in the context of global environmental change
Available online 17 April 2026
Rhodolith beds are biogenic calcareous habitats formed by free-living coralline algae that support high levels of biodiversity and contribute to the blue carbon cycle. Through a range of ecological...
A One-Health approach to non-native species, aquaculture, and food security
April 2024
One-Health is an umbrella term that integrates the health of the environment, humans and non-human animals. This approach is applied here to elucidate the impact of non-native invasive species on aquaculture...
Eggshell waste as a promising adsorbent for phosphorus recovery from wastewater: A review
January 2025
Phosphorus is a plant nutrient that is the main driving force of eutrophication, a serious type of water pollution. Various techniques and materials have been used to identify cost-effective, environmentally...
Diatom nutrient indices from biofilm eDNA: A tool for ecosystem health assessment
Available online 5 March 2026
Chemical-based water quality assessments, while widely used, often fail to capture the cumulative and fluctuating impacts of nutrient pollution. Diatoms, as primary producers in freshwater systems,...
