The world's largest tropical wetland is under threat, with scientists warning that devastating wildfires and a proposed commercial waterway could spell the "end of an entire biome". "Nowhere else ...

A Long Island contractor will fork over six figures in fines for building a parking lot on protected wetlands. Anthony ...

Governor's Island was named for island summer ... of habitats including over 1,800 islands, 2,000 shoals, and thousands of hectares of nearshore freshwater littoral habitats and coastal emergent ...

This map of the Eastern Kings wind farm development dated August 2024 shows a revised outline of the wetland the (thin blue). The cleared 2.52 acres of wetland are enclosed by the green line.

“There was another chain of shoals that connected Sandy Hook to Coney Island.” The islands and ... and the peninsula shrinks. Freshwater wetlands and mangrove swamps collapse—a death spiral ...

The wetlands of Colombo – described by one expert as "the lungs and kidneys" of Sri Lanka's capital but long since neglected and polluted – are being restored, helping to manage floods and ...

The rate of wetland loss has accelerated by 50% since 2009, amounting to a net loss of 670,000 acres — an area about the size of Rhode Island. The report notes that these findings are conservative ...

City of Marco Island is planning emergency repair and maintenance work to address impacts on Sand Dollar Island from Tropical Storm Debby and hurricanes Helene and Milton.

We are losing wetlands three times faster than forests, according to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. When it comes to restoring them to their natural state there is one hero with remarkable ...

The coral-rich Saint Martin’s Island and one of the country’s largest wetlands, Tanguar Haor, will see the first through tourism restrictions. See All Key Ideas In a bid to protect ...

at Governor’s Island in Clayton, New York, in the upper St. Lawrence River and 15 miles downstream of Eastern Lake Ontario. The research program focuses on aquatic ecology with an emphasis on ...

Photo: Colm Lougheed A special series of activity books based around Harper’s Island Wetlands Nature Reserve and its wildlife has been launched by the Mayor of County Cork, Frank O’Flynn.