What Is a Wetland Worth?
As the Supreme Court considers the fate of American wetlands, Annie Proulx’s Fen, Bog, and Swamp offers an elegiac love letter to overlooked ecosystems. ..
As the Supreme Court considers the fate of American wetlands, Annie Proulx’s Fen, Bog, and Swamp offers an elegiac love letter to overlooked ecosystems. ..
A cache of phytoplankton at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University is helping researchers reconstruct historical coastlines. ..
In the Delaware River and other waterways across the US, conservationists are restoring aquatic vegetation and beds of bivalves to fight pollution. ..
White spruce trees are expanding into the Arctic tundra with stunning speed, with potentially serious consequences both for the region and the world. ..
New research finds that chaos plays a bigger role in population dynamics than decades of ecological data seemed to suggest. ..
A long history of constraining the river through levees has led to massive land loss in its delta. Can people engineer a way out? ..
A rewilding project in Kent thinks that introducing bison to the UK can supercharge biodiversity. But how wild can introduced animals ever be? ..
The loss of sea ice is exposing darker waters, which absorb more of the sun’s energy. It’s a devastating feedback loop with major consequences for the planet. ..
Thought for decades to be extinct, the tiny animal has stayed hidden in a former subterranean speakeasy. ..
A recent study suggests that gains during the summer breeding season are making up for losses during migration. But the insects’ fate is far from assured. ..