Personally, I didn’t think much about wetlands while growing up in the city of Nashville, nor while spending almost two decades in hospitals as a surgeon, nor even during my 12 years in the Senate.

Below the peaceful surface of Chesapeake Bay tidal wetlands, methane-producing and methane-consuming microbes are competing for food. Higher temperatures may give the producers the edge.

The Knox Wetlands on Street Road with the town park in the background on the hill are seen on Jan. 4. An additional 1 million acres of wetlands are set to be under state protection after new ...

A nearly 600-acre wetland sits at the southernmost end of Lake Tahoe. It’s where Tahoe’s two largest tributaries — the Upper Truckee River and Trout Creek — meet and mingle amid tall ...

The securing of a federal grant in July to restore three coastal wetlands in Suffolk County is the start of a lengthy process to make sure the work doesn't do as much harm as good.

Wetland loss between 2009 and 2019 accelerated by more than 50% from the five prior years. And a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling raises more concerns.

The US Supreme Court opens its 2022-2023 term with a case that could greatly reduce federal protection for wetlands. Here is what makes these ecosystems valuable.

Birds, fish and flowers are returning to a river that cuts through Chile's capital after a decade-long effort transformed it from an eyesore filled with wastewater to an urban refuge for nature ...

Swampbuster protects about 78 million acres of wetlands, according to Food and Water Watch. That’s two-thirds of the wetlands remaining in the continental United States after agriculture ...

More than half of wetlands no longer have EPA protections after Supreme Court ruling NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Marla Stelk, executive director of the National Association of Wetland Managers ...

The court ruled that protection under the CWA only applies when wetlands have “a continuous surface connection to bodies that are ‘waters of the United States’ in their own right, so that ...

About 1.5 acres on the homeowner’s 3.3-acre property is wetlands, which is “part of a a major wetland system that is approximately 15 acres in size,” according to a Danbury Health Department ...