Climate change affects Tibetan lakes through its influence on precipitation, glacial meltwater flux, and permafrost degradation. This Review discusses the observed response of the physical and ...

The Environmental Protection Agency previously announced it will soon hold public listening sessions about how to redefine waters of the US, or WOTUS, to comply with the Sackett ruling, which shrank ...

As of the early 1990s, only about half of Florida's original, 20.3 million acres of wetlands remain, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District ...

Wetlands can also act as carbon sinks, sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Since the 18th century, the United States has lost half of its wetlands. In 1972, Congress passed the Clean ...

Tennessee lawmakers are considering a bill to remove protections for certain types of wetlands across the state to financially benefit developers. The bill is on the schedule for debate this week ...

BLUFFTON — Almost two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court stripped federal safeguards from many of the nation’s wetlands, leaving some South Carolina bogs, ponds and swamps vulnerable to ...

One advocate says the new administration’s approach turns a blind eye to science showing how all wetlands — most especially those to be erased from federal jurisdiction – serve vital protective ...

BEMUS POINT – A group of Chautauqua Lake Property Owners is eyeing a lawsuit against the state Department of Environmental Conservation to stop implementation of the state’s new freshwater wetlands ...

Chennai: Chief minister M K Stalin inaugurated the Dr M S Swaminathan Wetland Park, the city's first, a few days ago without much fanfare. While the park is now open to the public, the Chennai ...

Wetlands are areas of land where water covers the soil – all year or just at certain times of the year. They include: swamps, marshes billabongs, lakes, lagoons saltmarshes, mudflats mangroves, coral ...

Under the Ramsar Convention, wetland types have been defined to provide a very broad framework to aid rapid identification of the main wetland habitats represented at each Ramsar site. Wetland type is ...