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The consulting firm WSP was hired to restore Staten Island’s Saw Mill Creek Marsh and monitor it for 5 years. Credit: Courtesy of WSP

A Lifeline for New York’s Threatened Wetlands

By Lauren Dalban

Eric Soderholm, coastal wetlands restoration lead at The Nature Conservancy, takes a soil sample to evaluate the water saturation of peat at the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia. Credit: Sydney Bezanson/The Nature Conservancy

Virginia Once Drained and Dried Peatlands, but Now Eyes Them as Carbon Sinks

By Diana Kruzman

Sandhill cranes fly in for the night at the Woodbridge Ecological Reserve in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, one of their favorite roosting spots in California’s Central Valley. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

California Rice Fields Offer Threatened Migratory Waterbirds a Lifeline

By Liza Gross

Eric Schott, a marine researcher at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and graduate student Ronita Sequeira set up nets to capture small fish and other aquatic organisms along the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River in South Baltimore. Credit: Aman Azhar/Inside Climate News

Baltimore Is Investing in Wetlands Restoration, a Climate Line of Defense

By Aman Azhar

A view of the Pantanal wetlands in Brazil. New research shows a large chunk of global methane emissions are from rotting vegetation in tropical wetlands. Credit: Carl de Souza/AFP via Getty Images

Surging Methane Emissions Could Be a Sign of a Major Climate Shift

By Bob Berwyn

A great egret is seen in flight over the grassy marsh of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in New York City. Credit: Tim Farrell/NPS

New York City’s Marshes, Resplendent and Threatened

By Lauren Dalban

A view of the marshes of Udall’s Cove Park and Preserve in Little Neck, Queens. Credit: Lauren Dalban/Inside Climate News

New York’s Marshes Plagued by Sewage Runoff and Lack of Sediment

By Lauren Dalban

Bridges cross the marshes and streams of the Chesapeake Bay watershed on Tangier Island in Virginia. Credit: Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images

When a Retired Scientist Suggested Virginia Weaken Wetlands Protections, the State Said, No Way

By Sarah Vogelsong

A wetland in the Croatan National Forest in eastern North Carolina. Wetlands help offset the damaging effects of climate change. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

In North Carolina, a Legal Fight Over Wetlands Protections

By Lisa Sorg

An aerial view of Lake Okeechobee near Clewiston, Fla. Credit: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Billions of Gallons of Freshwater Are Dumped at Florida’s Coasts. Environmentalists Want That Water in the Everglades

By Amy Green

Dozens of people attend TxDOT’s public meeting on possible highway expansion near the Rio Bosque Wetlands Park in El Paso, Texas on May 2. Credit: Justin Hamel for The Texas Tribune/Inside Climate News

El Paso Residents Rally to Protect a Rio Grande Wetland

By Martha Pskowski

An American white ibis lands on marshy wetlands of the South Padre Island Birding Center in Texas. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/VW Pics/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images

The Transatlantic Battle to Stop Methane Gas Exports From South Texas

By Aaron Cantú, Capital & Main

Michael Lusk, a refuge manager for the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, surveys the edge of the federally protected swampland in Folkston, Ga., where a major new mining operation is preparing to break ground, raising concerns among longtime residents and environmentalists. Credit: Hyosub Shin/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Mining Fight on the Okefenokee Swamp’s Edge May Have Only Just Begun

By Drew Kann, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Plummer wetlands, with Lake Chatcolet in the background in northern Idaho at Heyburn State Park. The Supreme Court decision on Thursday centered on a property dispute involving wetlands near Priest Lake in Idaho. Credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Supreme Court Sharply Limits the EPA’s Ability to Protect Wetlands

By Emma Ricketts

Writer Annie Proulx at the Royal Theatre on January 27, 2014 in Madrid, Spain. Credit: Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images

In a New Book, Annie Proulx Shows Us How to Fall in Love with Wetlands

By Kiley Bense

Aerial view of the Pantanal wetlands, in Mato Grosso state, Brazil on March 8, 2018. Credit: Carl De Souza/AFP via Getty Images

Water as Part of the Climate Solution

By Charlie Miller

Activists attend a rally to call for protection of the Clean Water Act outside of the U.S. Supreme Court as it begins a new term on Monday, October 3, 2022. The court was hearing arguments in the case of Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

The Fate of Protected Wetlands Are At Stake in the Supreme Court’s First Case of the Term

By Aman Azhar

A planned restoration of the forest, meadows and wetlands in this floodplain near Leipzig, Germany, will boost biodiversity by improving wildlife habitat, and bolster climate mitigation by increasing carbon storage. Credit: Hendrik Schmidt/picture allianc

Targeted Ecosystem Restoration Can Protect Climate, Biodiversity

By Bob Berwyn

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