A Supreme Court ruling placed limits on federal protections for many streams and wetlands. A bill in California’s Legislature ...

the substrate is nonsoil and is saturated with water or covered by shallow water at some time during the growing season of each year. Cowardin et al. 1979 Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Areas of ...

Wetlands are areas of the land that are covered by water for most of the time. They can form naturally ... but then they lose some of it during the night and also when they're burned for fuel ...

it is time to urgently scale up investment in protecting, restoring and sustainably managing our wetlands. We cannot survive without healthy rivers, reefs, peatlands, seagrass beds, marshes and ...