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Many wetlands are disappearing, but Louisiana’s “accidental” Wax Lake Delta is growing—and informing coastal restoration ...
This week, the Senate passed Senate Bill 670 to ease burdensome regulations on Tennessee’s wetlands, creating new ...
From the floodplain forests of the upper Mississippi River to the long coast of Lake Michigan, Wisconsin is rich in wetlands.
A longtime provision of federal law called Swampbuster, which has protected millions of acres of wetland from being farmed, ...
America’s wetlands were historically viewed as useless areas that stood in the way of development. More than half of the 221 ...
Research on local history questions the practice of celebrating the start of landfill on April 16 as the birthday of Salt ...
In a landmark moment for Indian conservation, a rare and thrilling sighting of 74 Indian Skimmers (Rynchops albicollis) has ...
She had just received a grant of ₹32,000 from the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, to map the wetland ... recognised as Ramsar sites (under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, an international ...
Zimbabwe is set to host the Ramsar Convention’s 15th Conference of Parties (COP 15) in Victoria Falls in July 2025. Cancel reply ...
The day marks the date of the adoption of the “Convention of Wetlands of International Importance”, held in 1971 in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Through the ...
Wetlands are areas where water is the primary factor controlling the environment and the associated plant and animal life as per the Ramsar Convention. They range from village ponds, marshes ...