A wetland area, right, is found in the northwest section of James Conlan’s 71-acre farm property on Dec. 19, 2024, in Delaware, Iowa. Conlan has sued to overturn a voluntary federal wetland ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday cut back on the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate wetlands under the Clean Water Act, with a 5-4 majority continuing a trend in which the ...

Most US wetlands just lost federal protection, but there’s still time for state and local governments to act. Scientists and the public can help.

Federal appellate judges seemed doubtful Thursday that a wetland on St. Simons Island is protected by the Clean Water Act under a test recently created by the U.S. Supreme Court. During a hearing ...

A longtime provision of federal law called Swampbuster, which has protected millions of acres of wetland from being farmed, is facing a legal challenge. By Mitch Smith Reporting from Delaware ...

This year, roughly a quarter of the vast Pantanal wetland in Brazil, one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, has burned in wildfires worsened by climate change.

Wetland impacts from land development in Florida are regulated via state and federal environmental permitting programs. To permit unavoidable wetland impacts, the regulatory agencies require lost ...

Florida makes surprise move. Manatee County’s wetland buffer rules had been part of the county’s Comprehensive Plan since 1989. They were designed to shield environmentally sensitive areas ...

IDEM will hold a public hearing on April 30 regarding Amazon's proposal to remove wetlands and streams for a data center near New Carlisle. Amazon's plan would fill 9.7 acres of wetland and more ...