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Here in the Lowcountry, we are surrounded by water. At least half of Charleston is made up of marshes, creeks and coastal ...
The landscape of coastal real estate development in North Carolina has undergone a seismic shift following major regulatory changes over the last ...
Many wetlands are disappearing, but Louisiana’s “accidental” Wax Lake Delta is growing—and informing coastal restoration ...
Imagine standing on the edge of a land that breathes with the tides, where grasslands sway and birds wheel overhead, and the ...
The University of Rhode Island is calling on residents to assist in studying the impact of king tides as they will happen in ...
In India's Assam region, the Deepor Beel wetland has long been recognized for its importance to both human and animal life.
Federal appellate judges don't think a wetland near a hotel on St. Simons Island is protected by the Clean Water Act, despite what environmental groups say.
A Georgia federal judge dismissed the conservationists’ Clean Water Act lawsuit for a second time last year, ruling that the ...
A longtime provision of federal law called Swampbuster, which has protected millions of acres of wetland from being farmed, ...
Warming temperatures can ramp up the activity of methane-producing bacteria in wetland soils, adding to methane emissions.
FEMA canceling a disaster mitigation program is a blow to the flood-prone town of Crisfield and a wetlands restoration effort ...
I prepared with my National Guard unit for Superstorm Sandy. I still remember the feeling of uncertainty about what was about to happen — then the aftermath, fellow New Yorkers’ ...