Higher temperatures favor the activity of wetland soil microbes that produce the potent greenhouse gas, at the expense of other microbes that can consume it, researchers report April 23 in Science ...

If water, salty or fresh, is present on top of or just below the soil, it’s a wetland. You’ll know you’re in a wetland when your shoe prints turn muddy and wet. They make up just 6 percent ...

MIDDLETOWN — Wesleyan University is seeking approval from the city to remediate elevated levels of lead and arsenic in wetlands at the ... of pesticide-impacted soils beneath a cover of four ...

After a term of learning about wetland ecology from Cascadia natural sciences professor Midori Sakura, the students stepped into the teacher role Wednesday, giving an educational tour of one of ...

The discovery of battery toxins in the soils at Elkhorn Slough, a protected network of wetlands, creeks, and wildlife habitat popular with birders and kayakers, turned up attention on the impact ...

A wetland is just what is sounds like - an area of land that is very wet. There might be water on the surface where you can see it, or the soil itself is often completely soaked in water like a ...

The San Miguel County Board of Commissioners (BOCC) voted to approve a wetlands special use permit for the Telluride Regional ...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a 40-year-old wetlands law that allows the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...