A new era dawns for America’s disappearing wetlands as feds retreat from oversight By Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; For sport or food, love of birds is saving grace for America’s ...

Massachusetts farmers began draining wetlands to make cranberry bogs more than two centuries ago. Now there’s a race to restore them. November 26, 2024. 8 min.

Annual monsoon chaos in Indian cities due to urbanisation destroying natural drainage systems, leading to floods and ...

The Supreme Court's Sackett v. EPA decision limits federal protection to wetlands directly connected to a "water of the U.S." This change could remove safeguards from more than half of U.S ...

In this piece — part of a series from The Gazette and the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk — a look at what’s next for America’s disappearing wetlands, and how the battle to save ...

Although draining wetlands resulted in productive farmland in some areas, it also came with a price — one that grows costlier over time. Wetlands, including marshes, swamps, bogs and vernal ...

These results reconciled the contrasting changes of phenol oxidative activity following wetland drainage at different timescales and demonstrated that plant-microbe interactions, rather than ...

Parts of New Orleans and its surrounding wetlands are gradually sinking, and while most of the city remains stable, a new ...

These provisions bound wetlands protection to USDA loans, payments and assistance programs, including crop insurance and price support. They are key programs that more than 34% of farm households ...

“A reading of this law … could say that all of Bayou Sauvage, thousands of acres of wetlands, are now not protected,” Rota ...

They also said the old interpretation of which wetlands, like manmade drainage ditches, should receive federal protection made life difficult for farmers and limited what property owners could do ...

But advocates of the statute say it’s reasonable — the law does not prohibit farmers from draining wetlands on their property. “This isn't money that's owed to these farmers.