This would apply to activities including developments in wetlands and pipeline construction. Under the Clean Water Act, projects that discharge dredge or fill material into federally protected ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is now empowered to designate properties within 100 feet of the state's 7,500 lakes, ponds and reservoirs as wetlands. This ...

Bombay HC issues notices to BMC, MCZMA, and Konkan Wetland Committee over alleged illegal development on Goregaon West wetland, following a PIL. MUMBAI: The Bombay high court (HC) on Thursday ...

Eventually, the 1972 Clean Water Act banned unpermitted disposal of raw sewage in wetlands, but by then the marshy land had become an illegal dumping ground for other waste, including tires ...

SOUTHERN Africa’s wetlands, including those in Zimbabwe, are facing unprecedented threats from land degradation, human encroachment and climate change. In Zimbabwe, wetlands have been affected by land ...

Just before 10:30 a.m. Thursday, a hawk circled in a cloudless spring sky over the Conscience Bay-Little Bay Tidal Wetland Area in Setauket. "That means good luck," Helen Hart of Morning Star ...

Amid the rapid erosion of Louisiana’s coast, something hopeful is happening where the Atchafalaya River meets the Gulf. A flow of sediment from a decades-old river diversion has accidentally given ...

Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Thursday issued a notice to the BMC on a PIL that challenged the permission it had granted for landfilling a wetland plot at village Pahadi Goregaon in Oshiwara ...

SOUTHERN Africa’s wetlands, including those in Zimbabwe, are facing unprecedented threats from land degradation, human encroachment and climate change. In Zimbabwe, wetlands have been affected ...

Wetlands are places where land and water meet. They provide wildlife habitat, improve water quality, store carbon and slow water down during floods. Wisconsin has about 6 million acres of wetlands ...