Small gangs of buffaloes sat submerged in green and muddy waters. Their back ridges rose over the surface like a chain of black islets, spanning the Toos River, a tributary of the Tigris that flows into the Huwaiza marshes in southern Iraq. With their melancholic eyes, they gazed with defianceContinue Reading
Hong Kong, China – Barry Ma peers through the lens of his high-powered telescope and raises his arm as he points in excitement. “Here!” he says in a hushed voice. “Look here.” Ma has spotted a pair of little grebes — a duck-like bird, but an unrelated species — swimmingContinue Reading
Details By Northwestern University News August 30, 2022 Project is first NSF-funded Coastlines and People Hub for the Great Lakes regio EVANSTON, Ill. — A Northwestern University-led research team has received a $5 million grant over five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop new methods to help mitigateContinue Reading
It’s no secret that Louisiana’s crucially important saltwater and freshwater wetlands have long been fading away. But a new study shows things could get far worse. As the state’s saltwater wetlands migrate inland due to sea level rise fueled by global warming, they will cause a loss of freshwater wetlandsContinue Reading
Jonathan Remo, associate professor in the School of Earth Systems and Sustainability, left, works with Cecilia Albert-Black, an undergraduate student in geology, right, and doctoral student Joseph Krienert to take samples along the Mississippi River. A team from Southern Illinois University Carbondale co-led by Remo and Liliana Lefticariu, associate professorContinue Reading
The World Wetlands Day (WWD) is celebrated every February 2 to raise global awareness about the important role of wetlands for people and planet. It marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on February 2, 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar. This year, the celebration is theContinue Reading
PORT FOURCHON, Louisiana, Oct 14 (Reuters) – On Louisiana’s south coast, in a key port servicing the U.S. offshore oil industry, a huge shipyard sits idle and in tatters. Where parts of the nine-bay terminal’s roof once hung, only a tangle of twisted metal beams is now visible while aContinue Reading
Mines, landfills, and housing developments could be built in or around wetlands under a proposed Government walk-back of environmental rules. Those rules were only passed a year ago, but the Government was told “almost immediately” that they were preventing the development of housing and infrastructure in some areas, according toContinue Reading
The Coalition government decided a controversial apartment complex and marina proposed for Queensland’s Moreton Bay should proceed to the next stage of the assessment process, despite legal advice from the federal attorney general’s department warning it was unacceptable because of the risk it posed to internationally listed wetlands. The governmentContinue Reading
MIAMI — Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet on Tuesday rejected a legal ruling that loomed as a massive roadblock to Miami-Dade County’s controversial plan to run a major highway through wetlands fringing the Everglades. The decision doesn’t technically green light the planned Kendall Parkway, which would add aboutContinue Reading
