Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. Unique Wetlands Ecosystems Protect Us from Flooding, Filter Our Drinking ...

Scientists are warning of a new virus discovered in China that spreads to humans through tick bites, with the potential to cause problems in the brain. Wetland virus (WELV) was initially detected in a ...

HOWARD – Just outside the mouth of Duck Creek in the bay of Green Bay, Valerie Brady hovered over her waterproof datasheet – a must for a wetland scientist. Raindrops pooled on top, which she pushed ...

Shickley’s 2025 hometown interns Hannah Miller and Mariah Silva put it this way: “We have watched these role models pave a ...

A line of development stretches across southwest Louisiana, where a new law looks to redefine what wetland areas need permitting for development. (Elise Plunk/Louisiana Illuminator with aerial support ...

In Missouri, agriculture, urban development and man-made flood control measures have replaced 87% of the state’s original wetlands. Each year, an estimated 60,000 acres of wetlands is lost in the ...

The Supreme Court recently ruled against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a decision to place new limits on the Clean Water Act. For more than five decades, this environmental law has ...

Happy World Wetlands Day from the driest big city in the world. OK, that’s not true. We may think of our city as arid, but Los Angeles harbors its very own rich wetlands (plus, Yuma beats us on ...

I read with interest your recent article “Environmental protection or ‘NIMBY tool’? Inland wetlands agencies growing site of CT housing fights.” Your article left out a number of salient facts as it ...

Federal appellate judges seemed doubtful Thursday that a wetland on St. Simons Island is protected by the Clean Water Act under a test recently created by the U.S. Supreme Court. During a hearing in ...