Often conjuring images of dank, smelly, mosquito-infested wastelands, upon closer look, wetlands are actually biologically diverse and productive ecosystems. Home to a variety of plant life ...
More than 70% of 2.4 million acres of evergreen shrub bogs, locally known as pocosin peatlands, were drained for agriculture and forestry along the Southeastern U.S. Coast in the last century and ...
Coastal wetlands are suffering in part because of ... added that while muddy marshes might not look like "chocolate box images of the countryside", they are exciting, dynamic habitats.
Images can be powerful through their impact or beauty or illustrate an environmental or conservation story that reveals the importance of wetlands for nature and/or for people. Shane Gross (Canada) ...
The wetlands of Colombo – described by one expert as "the lungs and kidneys" of Sri Lanka's capital but long since neglected and polluted – are being restored, helping to manage floods and ...
Thirty million acres of unprotected wetlands across the Upper Midwest, including 1 million acres in Illinois, are at risk of being destroyed largely by industrial agriculture — wetlands that ...
Wetlands save Wisconsin and the upper Midwest almost $23 billion per year that would otherwise be spent combating flooding, a new report has found. And that comes as the loss of wetlands has ...