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14 May 2026

• Wetlands could drown as the planet warms. Here’s how infrastructure can help
  The rates of today’s sea-level rise mean portions of coastal wetland ecosystems will be lost to the ocean in the years and decades to come at a tempo never seen before. Wetlands have flourished along...
• The West’s wetlands are struggling. Some have been overlooked altogether.
  On a warm day in August, Anthony Stewart hiked through a forest on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, making his way through a tangle of ferns and grasses. Wispy, lichen-coated branches hung overhead,...
• Constitutional Question: CLPOA Appeals Wetlands Act Court Decision
  Chautauqua Lake is pictured. The Chautauqua Lake Property Owners Association has filed an an appeal of state Supreme Court Justice Richard Platkin’s April ruling that annulled the state’s Freshwater...
• Unexpected culprit: Wetlands as source of methane
  Wetlands are an important part of the Earth's natural water management system. The complex system of plants, soil, and aquatic life serves as a reservoir that captures and cleans water. However, as...
• ‘Incomprehensible’: birds flee and hundreds of turtles left to die after government cuts water to NSW wetlands
  Frogs and sheep in the Gwydir wetlands near Moree have also been bogged after WaterNSW stopped environmental flows, researchers say...