These pockets of woody wetlands can store about nine million tonnes of organic carbon per hectare — the equivalent amount of carbon burned by two million gas cars every year.

Moving downriver from upland bogs to tidal mudflats, and passing through sheep fields, research field stations, village fêtes and battle fields along the way, we meet the people who make mud a ...

The juvenile fin whale washed ashore on the Anchorage mud flats in November and drew thousands of visitors. It’s still there.

The site is intersected by a complex network of tidal waterways, mudflats and small islands of salt-tolerant mangrove forests, and presents an excellent example of ongoing ecological processes. The ...

But the sum of its physical oddities enables the Caribbean flamingo to thrive in salt pans, mudflats, tidal lagoons, and mangrove swamps. With its hooked bill it scrapes up clumps of mud to make a ...

A woman was rescued from mudflats after getting stuck up to her ... using two rescue sleds for crew to reach the female trapped in the tidal mud. Once crews had released the female, the two ...