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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Pyrolysis-based treatment of persistent organic pollutants in wastewater sludge: A critical review
Available online 20 May 2026
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) pose a critical environmental threat due to their chemical stability, toxicity, and long-term accumulation in wastewater treatment sludge. This review examines the...
Environmental DNA detects higher fish diversity than traditional methods in one of the world's largest rivers
Available online 14 May 2026
Biomonitoring is challenging in the world's largest rivers, especially in those with intensive navigation and other in-water human activities. Environmental DNA (eDNA) has emerged as a promising tool...
Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals CD8α+ cell heterogeneity and immunity in vaccinated flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus)
Available online 17 January 2026
CD8+ cells play a key role in the immune response of fish, but the specific mechanism by which they participate in protection after vaccination remains unclear. In this study, the CD8α molecule in flounder...
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...
Emerging advanced technologies for monitoring and managing plastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems
Available online 20 May 2026
Plastic debris in marine and freshwater ecosystems has become a growing global concern, negatively impacting aquatic life and human health. The worldwide challenge of persistent macro-litter, which...
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...
The One Health concept: fate, risks, and countermeasures of antibiotics and ARGs in aquaculture
Available online 19 May 2026
The rapid expansion of intensive aquaculture has increased the reliance on antibiotics for disease prevention and control, which in turn poses serious threats to aquatic ecosystems and public health....
Antibiotic-resistance gene dissemination in aquatic ecosystems: from rivers through food chain to clinical spill-over
Available online 29 May 2026
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) increasingly emerges from the coupled selection and transmission dynamics across wastewater, surface waters, food production, and human exposure networks. Evidence from...
Assimilation of methane-derived carbon by native and non-native fish in a Neotropical reservoir
Available online 11 June 2026
Artificial reservoirs are among the main global producers of methane. However, this methane can be oxidized by methanotrophic bacteria and incorporated into the food web through aquatic organisms, such...
Environmental DNA or traditional sampling approaches: The best of both worlds for assessing tropical freshwater biodiversity
Available online 29 April 2026
Freshwater ecosystems are under pressure from several anthropogenic stressors, resulting in a decline in freshwater biodiversity worldwide. Therefore, it is necessary to quantitatively and efficiently...
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...
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...
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...