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By Shanna Hanbury Amphibians in Brazil’s Pantanal, one of the world’s largest and most biodiverse wetlands, could lose huge swaths of their habitat as the region dries out from climate change, a new ...
From the floodplain forests of the upper Mississippi River to the long coast of Lake Michigan, Wisconsin is rich in wetlands.
The Trump administration is proposing to take a big step back from how many wetlands it protects. Conservationists warn about ...
The Supreme Court's Sackett v. EPA decision limits federal protection to wetlands directly connected to a "water of the U.S." This change could remove safeguards from more than half of U.S ...
The Pantanal wetlands -- ravaged by drought and wildfires last year -- was the most affected biome with water surface in 2024 about 61% below the average measured since 1985. While human-made water ...
While the science is clear – wetlands have lots of benefits and we know how to build more of them – the future is not. The ...
Learn more about the Mississippi River Basin's wetlands from coastal Louisiana to the headwaters in Minnesota.
Coastal scientists are locked in an intense dispute over the use of treated sewage to restore Louisiana's wetlands.
Drawing upon a variety of existing maps, data and information, WWF and the Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, Germany created the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD ...
Human well-being and ocean health are closely intertwined: The marine environment plays a critical role in climate regulation and provides important resources to people—from food and medicines to ...