Big changes to New York’s environmental conservation law took effect on Jan. 1, increasing regulated freshwater wetlands by one million acres, according to the state Department of Environmental ...

The state Department of Environmental Conservation has scheduled at least two upcoming webinars to explain the state’s new ...

Freshwater ecosystems comprise less than 1 percent of the Earth's surface but are home to 10 percent of all known animal species. These habitats include rivers, lakes and wetlands that support ...

Freshwater habitats – including rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, bogs and wetlands – cover less than 1% of the planet’s surface, but support 10% of its animal species, said Catherine Sayer ...

In addition to marsh and swamp habitats. Nico said the fish survives well in ponds, canals, roadside ditches and rice fields — "just about any freshwater habitat with a few inches of water." ...