ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced on Tuesday new regulations to protect freshwater wetlands across the state. The changes, most of ...

As sea level rises, freshwater marshes get saltier and turn into salt marshes. Conventional wisdom has long held that as freshwater marshes shrink, they release carbon stored in their soil and ...

In freshwater sawgrass marshes and salty mangroves of the Everglades, organic soils (called peat soils) develop under persistent flooding. Peat soils are comprised of plant matter that accumulates ...

Adoption of the updated wetlands regulations have gone into effect across New York state. The regulations implement new statutory requirements under the State’s Freshwater Wetlands Act that will ...

We have lost over a third since 1970. And we are continuing to degrade and destroy them – rivers and reefs, marshes and mangroves, swamps and seagrass beds. The world's freshwater and ocean wetlands ...

A broad definition of wetlands includes both freshwater and marine and coastal ecosystems, such as all lakes and rivers, underground aquifers, swamps and marshes, wet grasslands, peatlands ...

A map that distinguishes natural from human-made features shows how both threaten Florida’s immense and unique freshwater marsh. ByMatthew W. Chwastyk This story appears in the September 2018 ...