Mangrove forests protect tropical coasts from storms, store large amounts of carbon and provide vital habitats for plants and ...

Education plays a central role in wetland preservation. When communities understand how swamps function and why they matter, support for conservation initiatives increases. Clear communication about ...

It is highly likely that the term “ecosystem” lacks its equivalent in a majority of local languages. Defined as a structural and functional unit of ecology where the living organisms interact with ...

Research just published by the American Geophysical Union digs deeper into the carbon-storing power of wetlands along North America’s Pacific coast A new paper featuring Hakai Institute researchers ...

A team of scientists discovered a macroscopic species of bacterium living in the waters off Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, shifting the scales of how big we thought bacteria could be. The newly ...

As we collectively recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Ian, I am reminded of how Florida was, and still is, a precarious society engineered out of a wilderness of water with the swamp as ...

Swamps are often viewed through the lens of recreation, but their real value lies in the services they provide every day” — Milton Walker Jr. MARRERO, LA, UNITED ...