The world's largest tropical wetland is under threat, with scientists warning that devastating wildfires and a proposed commercial waterway could spell the "end of an entire biome". The Pantanal ...

Those rains provide fresh water to millions of people and create the Pantanal, the largest tropical wetland in the world. It’s a vast collection of shallow lakes, marshes, grasslands ...

From the floodplain forests of the upper Mississippi River to the long coast of Lake Michigan, Wisconsin is rich in wetlands.

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The enormous fires - often set by ranchers and farmers to clear land, but exacerbated by unusually dry conditions in recent weeks - have engulfed more than 10% of the Brazilian wetland, known as ...

WWF has welcomed the World Wetlands Day declaration of the world’s second largest internationally recognized and protected significant wetlands reserve in the Congo as a clear sign of the world’s ...

More than a billion people across the world depend on wetlands for their livelihoods – that’s about one in eight people on Earth. Check the Ramsar’s official website, leading entity for this ...

Located in western central Brazil at the south-west corner of the State of Mato Grosso, the site represents 1.3% of Brazil's Pantanal region, one of the world's largest freshwater wetland ecosystems.