Why cranberry country is turning into wetlands Massachusetts farmers began draining wetlands to make cranberry bogs more than two centuries ago. Now there’s a race to restore them.

We should have been first, as no other state has more at stake. We have more wetlands than the rest of the country combined; over 174 million acres, 43 percent of our landmass, are wetland.

In the Smithsonian wetland Lee worked in, anaerobic microbes can remove up to 12% of the methane—far less than their oxygen-loving counterparts, but more than scientists previously suspected. And in ...

Staff at Washington Wetland Centre are celebrating their latest arrival - a crane chick which is just the second ever to hatch at the centre.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency can no longer regulate pollution in certain wetlands.

A new habitat has been created at a wetland centre with the hope of attracting new nesting birds. Washington Wetland Centre (WWC) has built domed shelters, known as wigwams, to create dry patches ...

On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency can no longer regulate pollution in certain wetlands. Environmentalists across the country are up in arms.