Often conjuring images of dank, smelly, mosquito-infested wastelands, upon closer look, wetlands are actually biologically diverse and productive ecosystems. Home to a variety of plant life ...

While wetlands are increasingly being recognized as important ecosystems, draining them for development is a practice that still continues today. In the U.S. alone about 80,000 acres of wetland ...

A research group led by Prof. DING Weixin from the Institute of Soil Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has utilized ...

Wetlands are critical to people and nature, given the intrinsic value of these ecosystems, and their benefits and services, including their environmental, climate, ecological, social, economic ...

When the wetland was designed, it was agreed that 30 percent of its annual water volume would flow along the Hardy River to the south for environmental use—that is, to sustain the life of this ...

Mangrove wetland restoration and creation efforts are increasingly proposed as mechanisms to compensate for mangrove wetland losses. However, ecosystem development and functional equivalence in ...