Earth's wetlands are havens for wildlife and vital to the water cycle, but they are also under threat. An ESA-led initiative aims to develop a global wetland information service based on Earth ...

Wetlands across the globe have long served as natural repositories for humanity’s toxic legacy, absorbing and retaining hundreds to thousands of years’ worth of pollution. These swampy vaults have ...

On a warm day in August, Anthony Stewart hiked through a forest on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, making his way through a tangle of ferns and grasses. Wispy, lichen-coated branches hung overhead, ...

HOWARD – Just outside the mouth of Duck Creek in the bay of Green Bay, Valerie Brady hovered over her waterproof datasheet – a must for a wetland scientist. Raindrops pooled on top, which she pushed ...

Since wetlands were first subject to federal regulation in the 1970s, federal agencies have been attempting to develop techniques for assessing wetland functions. The motivations for assessing ...

One September morning Jim Fulton was pumping fuel into a combine harvester and watching the sky for rain. Fulton’s family has been farming in Illinois since the 1890s. Fulton, who now grows mostly ...

Though Canada is often known as a land of lakes, it is also a country of wetlands. Stretching like a necklace of emeralds, sapphires and rubies across the Canadian landscape, wetlands cover 14 per ...