Rivers, lakes, streams and freshwater wetlands are a key habitat, supporting more than a tenth of all known species, including around a third of vertebrates and half of animals, even though they ...

The loss of wetlands harms far more than just the animals and plants that live there, as it also limits our ability to fight climate change and stop flooding. Freshwater sources are also suffering ...

Freshwater habitats — 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, a zoologist ...

Keith A. Crandall and C. Riley Nelson The loss of wetlands harms far more than just the animals and plants that live there, as it also limits our ability to fight climate change and stop flooding.

Human activities are altering and accelerating the rate of change, threatening our wetlands’ continued existence.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation has scheduled at least two upcoming webinars to explain the state’s new freshwater wetlands regulations that took effect Jan. 1. The DEC previously ...

Celebrated on the second day of February every year, the World Wetlands Day to raise awareness about wetlands, and increase ...