including many of our state’s threatened or endangered species. Yet, despite losing thousands of acres of freshwater wetlands over the past century, Delaware is the only Mid-Atlantic state ...

Wyoming is host to a wide variety of freshwater wetland ecosystems, including emergent marshes ... wetlands support a disproportionately high number of plant and wildlife species and provide a suite ...

Gathered round Martha’s Pond in New Jersey’s iconic Pine Barrens, students in Claude Epstein’s environmental science class were instructed to put down their notebooks and simply observe. Under a ...

Despite their value and importance, many lakes, rivers, and wetlands around the world ... More than 20 percent of the 10,000 known freshwater fish species have become extinct or imperiled in ...

Of the 29,500 freshwater-dependent species that have been assessed for the IUCN Red List ... stripping federal protections from countless of our nation’s waterways and wetlands, leaving these critical ...

A broad definition of wetlands includes both freshwater and marine and coastal ... 40 per cent of all plant and animal species live or breed in wetlands. Wetland biodiversity matters for our ...

Rivers, lakes and wetlands are among the most biodiverse places on ... It’s an extraordinary fact: 51% of all known species of fish live in freshwater - 18,075 species. And more are being discovered ...

U.S. Supreme Court stripped many of the federal protections from America's wetlands in Sackett v. EPA. South Carolina ...

Another paragraph in the Environmental Conservation Law says freshwater wetlands include land and water substantially enclosed by designated plant species. In other words, the state Legislature didn’t ...