With a mission to the beauty of natural habitats along North Carolina’s coast, Janice Allen was thrilled with the efforts to protect what she called a “little wetland gem” by two busy highways in ...
In 1972, Congress passed the Clean Water Act, which serves as the country’s main safeguard against water pollution. It grants the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of ...
From sticky “flypaper” to lightning-fast suction, carnivorous plants have evolved various ingenious traps for finding the ...
From freshwater spaces to bogs, swamps, marshes and beyond, wetlands are distinct climates and ecosystems that play major roles in the air we breathe. Not only that, they house 40% of all plant and ...
POCONE, Brazil — Firefighters in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands this month celebrated the end of the fire season on Facebook, saying in a Nov. 7 post that “it is a relief for everyone who lives in the ...
Two jaguar cubs burned to death, their small bodies carbonized. Tapirs with raw, bloodied paws had been scalded by smoldering cinders. Nests of unhatched eggs from rare parrots were consumed by flames ...
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 ...
The UN Biodiversity Conference emphasized again how important the protection of biodiversity is for us humans, including freshwater biodiversity. One goal of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity ...
Unlike a commercial plant nursery, the Common Ground Relief nursery in the Lower 9th Ward stocks no rows of russet chrysanthemums, no hanging baskets of mandevillia. Instead, “We grow plants for ...
The President has promulgated “The Bangladesh Haor and Wetland Conservation Ordinance, 2026”, introducing stringent ...