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The US Supreme Court opens its 2022-2023 term with a case that could greatly reduce federal protection for wetlands. Here is what makes these ecosystems valuable.
The Supreme Court opens its 2022-2023 session with a high-profile case that has major implications for both wildlife and landowners.
Nigeria’s Environmental Impact Assessment Act is not protecting the environment enough and citizens need to get involved.
Wetlands can help limit the spread of the voracious round goby, an invasive species that has infiltrated the Great Lakes and has become widespread in the St. Lawrence River.
Flash flooding can happen in both urban and rural areas, with deadly results in either setting.
Habitat protection and restoration, advanced reproductive technologies and reintroduction procedures could help slow the decline of western chorus frogs and other amphibians.
Somerset Wetlands national nature reserve merges and extends six existing protected sites.
Accra has become susceptible to floods due to encroachment on wetlands.
Millions of people around the world live on river deltas and are vulnerable when those rivers shift direction. A new study shows why and where these events, called avulsions, happen.
By mismanaging its forestry road system, Québec and the forestry companies operating in public forests have made significant savings, to the detriment of protecting aquatic environments.
New research investigating the yabby diets found just how crucial these crayfish are to aquatic ecosystems.
These wetland birds were eradicated in the 17th century, but breeding pairs returned in 1979.
Beavers in our landscapes have great potential to provide small-scale adaptations to climate change – if humans can figure out how to live with them.
A unique design-science collaboration turns ecological data into an immersive digital portrait of a precious wetland.
In spite of monsoon season and cyclone Nivar, the most recent floods are largely man-made disasters.
The presence of a vulnerable species in Ekor Waterfalls, Nigeria, is a signal that the area could support other rare or threatened species.
Mahmudia became a wasteland under dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu’s communist agricultural policy. But villagers fought to resurrect their home and reconnect with the wilderness.
Humanity’s biggest challenges are not technical, but social, economic, political and behavioural. Effective actions are still possible to stabilise the climate and the planet, but must be taken now.
More than 40 per cent of natural wetlands in the Canadian Prairies have been lost due to drainage, and the impacts associated with this are largely unmitigated.
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Adjunct Professor, Charles Sturt University
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Research Associate, Institute of Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor of Law Emeritus, Vermont Law & Graduate School
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Reader in Natural Sciences, Bangor University
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Professor of Law, University of California, Davis
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Professor in School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences; and Director of Environmental Futures Research Centre, University of Wollongong
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AXA Chair in Coastal Resilience & Research Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Professor of River Science and Climate Resilience, University of Salford
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Honorary Research Fellow in Hydromorphology, University of Salford
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Principal Researcher, CGIAR System Organization
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Coastal Flood Risk, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Professor Emeritus of International Environmental Policy, Tufts University
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Honorary Professor of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, UCL
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Professor of Marine Conservation, University of Exeter
