In 2018, Friends of Green Lake initiated the floating wetlands project to commemorate the life of Taiga Hinckley, a beloved employee of the Greenlake Boathouse Center. The project was selected to ...

"They tend to get filled in and built over or farmed," said Diefenderfer, "so understanding the hydrological thresholds and competition between species is important both to inform ecosystem ...

Wetlands are ecosystems, in which water is the primary factor controlling the environment and the associated plant and animal life. A broad definition of wetlands includes both freshwater and marine ...

Community Wetlands Forum has launched a creative approach to wetland engagement, aiming to inspire communities nationwide to ...

Wetlands have flourished along the world’s coastlines for thousands of years, playing valuable roles in the lives of people and wildlife. They protect the land from storm surge, stop seawater from ...

Wetlands have long received little attention in traditional limnology courses. Yet they are a critical resource, providing habitat for important species, significant links in the cycling of nutrients ...

Wetlands are among the most threatened ecosystems in the world. A new study, published in Nature, has found that the loss of wetland areas around the globe since 1700 has likely been overestimated.

In 2020 wildfires destroyed approximately 30 per cent of the Pantanal, South America’s largest wetland spreading across Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. For the last 60 years, one of Central Africa’s ...

UCSC researchers set up an “eddy covariance” tower in Elkhorn Slough with instruments for measuring environmental parameters, including the flux of carbon dioxide and methane into and out of the ...

This World Wetlands Day, we celebrate the theme, ‘Wetlands and traditional knowledge: celebrating cultural heritage.’ As wetlands disappear, birds, livelihoods and knowledge are at risk. Across the ...

The rates of today’s sea-level rise mean portions of coastal wetland ecosystems will be lost to the ocean in the years and decades to come at a tempo never seen before. Wetlands have flourished along ...

Many rural households derive a variety of direct use goods and services from wetland ecosystems in many countries, and as such wetlands are their pillar to livelihoods. The contribution of wetlands to ...