Kerri Finlay receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, Canada Research Chair (CRC) program, Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the ...

Chicago — As sweeping changes to the federal Clean Water Act in recent years have weakened protections for wetlands, Illinois has become the first state in the nation to officially recognize a ...

Paul Botts, president and executive director of the Wetland Initiative, walks across the ice on Feb. 2, 2026, at Indian Ridge Marsh Park on Chicago’s Far South Side. The wetlands, frozen in the winter ...

The Montezuma Wetlands drape across 1,800 acres of Solano County, California, where the Sacramento River empties into San Francisco Bay. Once drained and diked for farming and grazing, the marsh has ...

Gov. Phil Scott has proposed rolling back some state wetland-protections to spur housing development — a move critics say would be bad for the environment and impede efforts to make Vermont more flood ...

Kigali is bringing nearly 500 hectares of urban wetlands back to life—the largest city-wide urban wetland rehabilitation in Africa and one of the largest in the world. This “living infrastructure” has ...

Before juvenile salmon make their way to the sea, they grow and feed in freshwater, including wetlands, for anywhere between a few months and several years. But new research finds that as air ...

A heavy equipment firm scored approval for its headquarters on more than 200 acres outside Miami-Dade County’s Urban Development Boundary, including paving over wetlands in a plan to develop a ...

Wetlands at Lake Waccamaw State Park located in Columbus County, N.C. Wetlands prevent flooding, filter pollutants and support wildlife.Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons In 1972, Congress passed the ...

When the Trump administration moved to curtail wetland protections in November, environmental groups warned the rollback could endanger millions of acres of freshwater resources and critical wildlife ...

For most people, water is something that simply arrives at the tap. It is assumed to be safe, regulated, and protected by the systems designed to oversee public health. Yet research over the past ...