Up to 30 per cent of coastal wetlands could be lost globally by the year 2100 with a dramatic effect on global warming and coastal flooding, if action is not taken to protect them, new research warns.

Despite their importance to water security and their legal protection, diffuse seeps – which are primarily responsible for the formation of wetlands in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna biome – continue to be ...

New studies provide valuable insights into removing toxins from polluted waterways and improving filtration at urban wetlands. One study found a wetland plant capable of reducing PFAS in soil and ...

I am appalled at the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 decision last month to modify the jurisdictional definition and delineation of wetlands under the federal Clean Water Act. The high court’s new ...

Warming temperatures may cause methane emissions from wetlands to rise — by helping methane-producing bacteria thrive. Higher temperatures favor the activity of wetland soil microbes that produce the ...

ST. MARY PARISH, La. — Amid the rapid erosion of Louisiana's coast, something hopeful is happening where the Atchafalaya River meets the Gulf. A flow of sediment from a decades-old river diversion has ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Twice a year, millions of migratory birds undertake an epic journey between their northern breeding grounds and their southern wintering grounds – along the world’s great “flyways.” This massive, ...

Beneath the roar of gunfire and the chaos of D-day, an unlikely hero played a vital role — wetland science. Often overlooked amid military strategies and troop movements, the study of mud proved ...