The state Attorney General’s office isn’t opposing Republican lawmakers from filing briefs in a lawsuit over the state’s Freshwater Wetlands Act, but the state is taking the opportunity to disagree ...

Over the past three years, photographer David Walter Banks has spent nearly 70 nights alone in the Okefenokee Swamp. His gorgeous, almost psychedelic images have been published in his new book, ...

The 2022/2023 State budget included watershed (no pun intended) amendments to the regulations governing New York’s Freshwater Wetlands. It has been published that the changes to the Freshwater ...

A new global study reveals that nearly one in four freshwater animal species is at high risk of extinction, scientists warn.

The 2022 budget legislation expanded DEC's role by changing the definition of areas that constitute a regulated freshwater wetland. Regulation of wetlands is one of the most significant ways that the ...

The Okefenokee Wilderness is one of the last large freshwater swamps that have remained largely pristine, but that could change soon if a company gets approval to mine heavy minerals not far away.

On Tuesday, the state’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) officially began to reconnect the Mississippi River with the Maurepas Swamp, a degraded and submerged swamp forest directly ...

David White, a professor of biological sciences at Loyola University and leader of this trip, braves a standing position in the canoe as Byron Almquist of canoeandtrail.com paddles him forward. More ...

While exploring a freshwater swamp forest in Thailand in 2016, a group of researchers noticed something peculiar: a minuscule bright orange creature gripping onto the fruits of palm plants and ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Ground was broken Tuesday, December 3, on a project to help revitalize the Maurepas Swamp’s more than 45,000 acres. According to the Louisiana Coastal Protection and ...

Rural communities in South Sumatra, an Indonesian province that’s two-fifths wetlands, have long relied on catching freshwater fish as a source of livelihood. The region is renowned for its variety of ...