Editor’s note: Jeff Yost is the president and CEO of Nebraska Community Foundation. This is the second of a two-part series. Among the many vibrant communities in the NCF network, three “wetlands” ...

A new international study has endorsed artificial floating wetlands as a sustainable and cost-effective solution for improving water quality in rivers, lakes and wastewater systems.

When Fredy Yavinape was a young child, he didn’t know the biological concept of an “umbrella species.” These are species that require large areas of undisturbed habitat to survive, which is why they ...

The City of Phoenix, the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management (DFFM), and the Phoenix Fire Department have scheduled a prescribed burn at the Tres Rios Wetlands for October, as reported ...

Eighth grade students from Vermillion County got to trade in the classroom for a day in nature as part of a field trip with Purdue Extension. Morgan Lutz is the 4-H Youth Development Extension ...

Woodberry Plantation in Brittons Neck along Pee Dee River was home to enslaved people, is now Freedomland Community Forest thanks to conservation groups.

As we enter fall, my thoughts are in spring. Particularly, my mind drifts back to those few weeks when our state becomes the temporary residence of nearly one million sandhill cranes. The annual ...

An arial photo of the SPRUCE experiment. Postdoctoral Researchers Caitlin Petro and Borja Aldeguer-Riquelme inside a SPRUCE chamber in 2023. Ph.D. student Katherine Duchesneau sampling porewater ...