Recent Supreme Court rulings and state legislation threaten to weaken wetland protections in North Carolina. Proponents of these changes argue that previous regulations were overly burdensome and ...

Katharina Neisel, from the NGO CopsCats, which operates the nearby feeding station, approximately 350 metres in front of the wetland, sees a contradiction in the municipalities approach.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

High Fen site manager Frank Street said he hoped local schools and volunteers would be able to get involved in the project soon A former daffodil farm is to be returned to vital wetland through a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wetlands have been used for agriculture for thousands of years. They provide a range of valuable ecosystem services, such as the provision of food and clean water, the retention of soil and the ...