The scariest part of Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" mythos is also one of its least explored. Here's what you should know ...

"The rainbow sheens found as a thin film on top of pooled water in swamps and marshes are the result of natural oils released by decaying vegetation or the biological processes of anaerobic ...

Marshes were drained and replaced by shallow, lifeless ponds. Old floodplain forests were cut down with no plan for them to grow back. Swamps and bogs were permanently drowned by open water.

They are often covered by water. In the past, swamps and other wetlands have traditionally held a very low property value when compared to fields, prairies, and woodlands. This is because they ...

A broad definition of wetlands includes both freshwater and marine and coastal ecosystems, such as all lakes and rivers, underground aquifers, swamps and marshes, wet grasslands, peatlands ...

Most Michigan wetlands have been destroyed, even as climate change means we need their benefits. Here’s how groups are ...

Imagine walking on an abandoned pier in Philadelphia and entering a lush park surrounded by a mosaic of wetlands. An elegant ...

The hardest-hit areas in southeast Louisiana present difficult geographic challenges for restoration workers that require ...

Roughly 670,000 acres of salt marshes, swamps and other wetlands disappeared in the lower 48 states in the decade ending in 2019. Mandated by Congress, the recently released Wetlands Status and ...

The loss of marshes, bogs and swamps is driving a rapid, global decline in dragonflies, researchers say. Their plight has been highlighted by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature ...

We have lost over a third since 1970. And we are continuing to degrade and destroy them – rivers and reefs, marshes and mangroves, swamps and seagrass beds. The world's freshwater and ocean wetlands ...

Whereas the snowshoe hare inhabits dense coniferous forests, even at the highest elevations, the eastern cottontail thrives in deciduous forest clearings and edges, meadows, farmlands, brushy fields, ...