Understanding the science behind wetland loss is essential to making informed decisions about land use, development, and disaster ...

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 ...

Warming temperatures can ramp up the activity of methane-producing bacteria in wetland soils, adding to methane emissions.

Recent Supreme Court rulings and state legislation threaten to weaken wetland protections in North ... and in the west from last year's Tropical Storm Helene, officials have repeatedly stressed ...

Linn County Conservation has a potential plan in the works to transform a soggy stretch of unused land near Morgan Creek Park, into a restored wetland, helping to fight erosion and filter water ...

Raleigh took a direct hit, with the storm toppling thousands of trees and ... Water Act banned unpermitted disposal of raw sewage in wetlands, but by then the marshy land had become an illegal ...

Their concerns center on the loss of critical wetlands that provide natural storm surge protection and flood control — a concern that’s only grown more urgent in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian ...

A Georgia federal judge dismissed the conservationists’ Clean Water Act lawsuit for a second time last year, ruling that the ...

Federal appellate judges seemed doubtful Thursday that a wetland on St. Simons Island is protected by the Clean Water Act under a test recently created by the U.S. Supreme Court. During a hearing ...