On Tuesday, the state’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) officially began to reconnect the Mississippi River with the Maurepas Swamp, a degraded and submerged swamp forest directly ...

It is World Wetlands Day today. World Wetlands Day is celebrated every year on 2 February. This day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city ...

Wetlands have long received little attention in traditional limnology courses. Yet they are a critical resource, providing habitat for important species, significant links in the cycling of nutrients ...

Wetlands are the lifeline of our planet, nourishing ecosystems, sustaining communities and fueling economies. Yet, despite their critical importance, freshwater ecosystems are among the most ...

This article outlines some of the challenges facing conservation of freshwater ecosystems and future directions for freshwater protected area establishment and management. The primary purpose of ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Ground was broken Tuesday, December 3, on a project to help revitalize the Maurepas Swamp’s more than 45,000 acres. According to the Louisiana Coastal Protection and ...

Procambarus clarkii is a crustacean species native to American freshwater bodies. Brought to Japan in the 1920s as a feed for frogs, this crustacean has slowly taken over the Japanese freshwaters by ...

Chicago, a city built on the shores, indeed the wetlands, of Lake Michigan, is no stranger to the importance of fresh water. However, it’s easy to mistake the lake’s vastness for abundance, forgetting ...