Science news articles about 'freshwater wetlands'

... fields, roads, parking lots and other surfaces. But wetlands are also a natural source of methane, and bacteria present ... soil cores from Old Woman Creek, a freshwater wetland near Lake Erie in northern ...

While the nation as a whole gained freshwater wetlands from 1998 to 2004, a new report documents a continuing loss of coastal wetlands in the eastern United States.

The BBC's Gary Duffy assesses the future the Brazilian Pantanal, one of the World's largest freshwater wetlands.