While wetlands are usually celebrated as ecological paradises, teeming with biodiversity and life-sustaining resources, ...

Here, the new satellite reveals stunning variety within the tropical forest landscape. Green hues indicate forested areas; ...

Altogether, wetlands contain about a third of the world’s carbon, and when they’re degraded, the emissions locked in their soils are released. An expedition paddles along the Okavango River in ...

As such, one of the center's main tasks will be to gather local knowledge about wetlands around the world. Experiments must find local differences and solutions. Wetlands are far from uniform. Because ...

Wetlands around the world There are currently over 2,500 Ramsar Sites around the world . They cover over 2.5 million square kilometers, an area larger than Mexico.

Peat bogs store twice as much CO2 as all of the world's forests combined. A new research center at the University of Copenhagen will map Earth’s wetlands and provide important knowledge about ...

Around nine per cent of the world's space and approximately five per cent of Nepal's area are covered by wetlands. There are 163 wetlands in Tarai and 79 in the mountainous and hilly areas.

Each year, the Brahmaputra River spills its banks and submerges much of Kaziranga National Park where Rhino’s roam. The floodwaters rise quickly, sometimes covering 80% of the reserve. And yet ...

The first comprehensive new map for the Mendenhall wetlands area since 1979 is nearing completion and the cartographer for the project — who started drawing local maps around that time — says ...

People around the world will come together to celebrate one of the most important ecosystems on the planet on 2 February. Wetlands are relied on by half of the world's plants and animals ...

Peat bogs store twice as much CO2 as all of the world's forests combined. A new research center at the University of Copenhagen will map Earth’s wetlands and provide important knowledge about the ...