In this valuable study, the authors attempt to reconstruct the evolutionary history of a large and widespread group of freshwater fishes (Nemacheilidae) across Eurasia since the early Eocene, based on ...

Climate change affects Tibetan lakes through its influence on precipitation, glacial meltwater flux, and permafrost degradation. This Review discusses the observed response of the physical and ...

An Iowa landowner is suing the federal government over a law that requires him to protect wetlands on his property in order to receive farm subsidies. The lawsuit argues that the 'Swampbuster ...

Several Iowa farmers have joined the federal government to defend a long-standing Farm Bill provision that protects wetlands against a challenge by a Chicago-based investor and two libertarian law ...

Jessica Kramer, the nominee for assistant administrator for water, fielded questions from Republicans about the agency’s regulation of wetlands under the Clean Water Act. Amid the Trump ...

A black vulture spies the corpse of a caiman floating in Caño San Silvestre, a stream connecting freshwater swamps in the San Silvestre wetlands. Toby Hill / Global Witness Wetlands downstream of the ...

Secretly filmed video footage shows Veolia employees in 2023 pumping untreated liquid pollutants – known as leachate – from a large landfill site into nearby wetlands. Independent tests conducted ...

The Environmental Protection Agency previously announced it will soon hold public listening sessions about how to redefine waters of the US, or WOTUS, to comply with the Sackett ruling, which shrank ...

As of the early 1990s, only about half of Florida's original, 20.3 million acres of wetlands remain, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District ...

The federal government has for more than 50 years required those wanting to fill wetlands to get permits that require federal review. But recent court rulings have limited wetlands protection.

Wetlands can also act as carbon sinks, sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Since the 18th century, the United States has lost half of its wetlands. In 1972, Congress passed the Clean ...

TALLAHASSEE — A federal appeals court will hear arguments in May in a closely watched case about whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2020 improperly shifted permitting authority ...