The digital map covers 5,252 acres, including the roughly 4,000-acre area officially known as the Mendenhall Wetlands State Game Refuge, plus nearby tidal and recent post-glacial uplift areas ...

Peat bogs store twice as much CO2 as all of the world's forests combined. A new research center at the University of Copenhagen will map Earth’s wetlands and provide important knowledge about the ...

A federal judge in Iowa dismissed a lawsuit on Thursday that threatened millions of acres of wetlands, ecosystems that mitigate flooding, reduce water pollution and support biodiversity. While the ...

On the maps, these wetlands don’t form a contiguous ring around the lake. Under DEC’s new rules, however, the entire lake, including a 100-ft buffer zone extending inland from the shore, ...

South Carolina’s wetlands are under assault, like those in other states, as a result of a Supreme Court ruling, a new report says. More than one million acres are vulnerable at a time when ...

The new wetlands law eliminates the use of the old, inaccurate wetland maps and clarifies that all wetland areas greater than 12.4 acres are subject to Article 24 regulations. Freshwater wetlands are ...

Tennessee, North Carolina and Louisiana have also redefined wetlands in their state laws and plan to allow more wetland ...