WASHINGTON — Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction, according to new research published Wednesday. “Huge rivers like ...

Almost a quarter of freshwater animals, including crabs, crayfish, shrimp, damselfly and fish, are threatened of going extinct, according to a new, global study that was published on Wednesday.

NEW YORK, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction worldwide, according to a new research published on ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction, according to new research published Wednesday. “Huge rivers ...

The global assessment of freshwater animals on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species evaluated the extinction risk of 23,496 freshwater ...

Although freshwater covers less than 1 percent of the Earth’s surface, it supports 10 percent of the planet’s known animal species, including roughly half its types of fish. For the study ...

New research shows about a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction WASHINGTON -- Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers ...

Pollution is the most important factor affecting freshwater animal decline followed by dams and water extraction, land-use change and associated effects from agriculture (from subsistence to ...