Water levels, plant life, and wildlife behavior shift constantly. What looks quiet on the surface often reflects ...

A video posted online this month shot by a man cruising in a motor boat showed a stretch of canal in the Okefenokee Swamp with dozens and dozens of alligators — likely concentrated in that area ...

It’s not just climate change that’s driving extinctions: Wetland mismanagement is endangering 40,000 small but vital plant and animal species, according to the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD). A ...

Rising seas are drowning New Jersey wetlands. A new round of state climate funding aims to make them more resilient.

We asked for questions about the amazing carbon-storage capabilities of peatlands, and how these ecosystems keep the planet breathing. Readers sent us more than a thousand. Here are some answers. Bogs ...

Peatlands and wetlands, such as freshwater bogs and salt marshes, are permanently waterlogged ecosystems that form a vital and vast carbon store. Land use change, drainage and climate change, among ...