Primitive ponds may have provided a suitable environment for brewing up Earth's first life forms, more so than oceans, a new study finds. Researchers report that shallow bodies of water, on the order ...

Jessie Hayes stuck a long, thin twig into the shallow pond behind his house. The stick quickly hit bottom and then slid down farther into the muck — easily about 8 inches deep. Hayes was demonstrating ...

There is a cathedral in our state that is made entirely of water, wood, and light. A dome of blue sky forms its ceiling and mighty buttresses of cypress firmly anchor it to the sandy ground. Quiet, ...

Is your pond healthy? This is a question landowners should ask themselves when maintaining water sources on their property. Jeremy Duck, fisheries biologist at the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife ...

The main pond at Agua Caliente Park has become a shallow, sludgy shadow of its former self. But that’s not a bad thing. The popular pond northeast of Tucson is being slowly drained to accommodate ...