Yancheng city, east China's Jiangsu province, boasts the world's largest intertidal wetland system and China's first World Natural Heritage site of coastal wetlands. As an important stopover site for ...

In 2022, the 2nd Cycle of UNESCO World Heritage & Sustainable Tourism Programme - Chinese Pilot Studies was launched in Badou village located in the Tiaozini wetland of Phase I sanctuaries in Yancheng ...

Wetlands are regions of land that are generally saturated with water. However, when rain causes water to pool on land, it does not constitute a wetland. More specifically, wetlands are areas where ...

The Canton Topgolf project would involve filling 7.5 acres of wetlands, including a rare forested wetland type. The EPA has objected to the project's wetlands permit, citing concerns about ...

A fast-moving bill in the Kentucky legislature would narrow the state’s water protections, leaving groundwater, ephemeral streams and wetlands vulnerable to pollution — with myriad downstream ...

The defendants also conducted prohibited activity in a wetland of national significance and were found to have caused harm in a culturally significant area. A commercial farming company and one of ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signaled it could narrow which set of waters receive protections under the Clean Water Act — and will narrow protections for wetlands in the meantime.

India's bristle worms are often overlooked. But they are crucial to the health of the country's wetlands – which is why local women are working to catch the poachers decimating their population.

designated as a Special Area of Conservation (SAC), Special Protection Area (SPA), Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), and an internationally important wetland under the Ramsar Convention.

Credit: ALFAwetlands, WET HORIZONS, EU, Greifswald Moor Centrum, Public Domain In classic literature, wetlands—ecosystems characterized by permanently or periodically water-saturated land—have ...