Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. Unique Wetlands Ecosystems Protect Us from Flooding, Filter Our Drinking ...

Immature white ibis’ forage for food in the marshes along Singleton Beach Road on Wednesday, Sept.13, 2023 on Hilton Head Island. Drew Martin dmartin@islandpacket.com Few words in the environmental ...

CHESTERFIELD, Mo. – On a sunny spring day on a farm outside St. Louis, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin celebrated a new era for America’s wetlands. Flanked by farm ...

IndyStar recently covered a warehouse development that would destroy wetlands in Marion County and wetlands across the state have been a topic of conversation during this — and many past —legislative ...

Illinois wetlands deserve protection. Lawmakers should make that happen, while there is still time. State lawmakers can pass legislation that would restore the safeguards the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Governor Eric Holcomb signed controversial House Bill 1383 into law on Monday, but the law has implications for surrounding states. Here's what you need to know. Wetlands are areas where water covers ...

Bayou Sauvage Urban National Wildlife Refuge, an area of marshland at the eastern edge of New Orleans, is — in biological terms — considered an area full of wetlands. One of the last remaining marshes ...

In the wetlands of coastal southeast Louisiana, conservation groups are wrapping up a four-year project to plant 30,000 trees ...

With North Carolina recently suffering historic flooding damage, in the east from 2016's Hurricane Matthew and 2018's Hurricane Florene and in the west from last year's Tropical Storm Helene, ...

Englewood MetroPark’s 40-acre wetland — once even nicknamed “Englewood Lake” because of plentiful water and aquatic species — ran into a major issue: It was no longer wet. That’s what led Five Rivers ...