The first comprehensive new map for the Mendenhall wetlands area since 1979 is nearing completion and the cartographer for the project — who started drawing local maps around that time — says ...

From water and food security to reducing poverty and disaster risk, healthy wetlands are essential for our daily survival ... Designating a site means more than drawing some lines on a map and giving ...

At some point in 2023, Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources pushed through updates to its map of provincially protected ...

Protecting and restoring wetlands is one of the ways we can help nature to help us. ByJohnny Langenheim Statistics would suggest that Canada has a veritable surplus of freshwater: fully one-fifth ...

Wetlands once made up 25 percent of Indiana. Many of these 5.6 million acres were located in the fertile farmground of northern Indiana. Early in the 19th century, landowners began using open ditches ...

Wetlands are ecosystems, in which water is the primary factor controlling the environment and the associated plant and animal life. A broad definition of wetlands includes both freshwater and ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today released a required report to Congress that shows the dire status of America’s wetlands and highlights the urgent need for more protections.

A federal judge has refused to allow USDA rules for on-farm wetland maps to remain effective after previously ruling they were adopted unlawfully. Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge Tanya ...

Wetlands are areas of the land that are covered by water for most of the time. They can form naturally or be man-made. If I told you I was visiting a bog, you might be wondering why I look so ...

We are losing wetlands three times faster than forests, according to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. When it comes to restoring them to their natural state there is one hero with remarkable ...

Fifty million birds from almost 500 species travel along it each year, stopping off at wetlands along the way where they rest and refuel. But it is also home to more than a third of the world’s ...