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16 October 2026

• How Wetlands Protection Narrowed After Sackett
  Wetlands Protection under the Clean Water Act narrowed after Sackett, leaving conservation, flood-control and permitting questions unresolved.
• A new era dawns for America’s disappearing wetlands as feds retreat from oversight
  CHESTERFIELD, Mo. — On a sunny spring day on a farm outside St. Louis, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin celebrated a new era for America’s wetlands. Flanked by farm...
• Wetlands: What You Don’t Know And Why It Matters
  Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. Unique Wetlands Ecosystems Protect Us from Flooding, Filter Our Drinking...
• Why Great Plains rivers depend on wetlands as well as climate
  When a prairie river carries more water in one year than another, the obvious place to look for an explanation is the sky. A year with more snow and rain should have more water in rivers. That was...
• Earth has lost one-fifth of its wetlands since 1700—but most could still be saved
  Like so many of the planet's natural habitats, wetlands have been systematically destroyed over the past 300 years. Bogs, fens, marshes and swamps have disappeared from maps and memory, having been...