The Nature Conservancy of Connecticut has unveiled its $4 million plan to transform and restore marshes and an estuary at ...

They are ghost forests: the haunting remains of what were once stands of cedar and pine. Since the late 19th century, an ever ...

South Carolina is home to a lot of alligators. Around 100,000 of them, to be exact. Although it is fewer than in some states, ...

The warming hole might be a sign that Atlantic Ocean currents are slowing down. This network of currents regulates Earth's ...

The air in Basra carries a strange weight: part saline mist from the nearby Persian Gulf and part acrid smoke from the ...

Deinosuchus had a wide snout like an alligator’s. But unlike alligators, it thrived in salty waters. It lived between 82 and ...

I also loved occasionally spotting a Virginia rail, a secretive bird that favors freshwater marshes ... mainly lived to our north on narrow salt marshes while seaside sparrows lived mainly ...

Wetlands — 95 percent of which are freshwater — covered less than 6 percent of the lower 48 states as of 2019. The country ...

These hardy, salt-tolerant trees are being planted ... They’re a nature-based solution that researchers say could protect the freshwater marshes upstream. A 2024 policy analysis concluded ...

Federal appellate judges don't think a wetland near a hotel on St. Simons Island is protected by the Clean Water Act, despite what environmental groups say.

Some Floridians never see a firefly in their home state, but Florida actually has more than 50 species of firefly. Here's how ...