Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PLAQUEMINES PARISH, Louisiana — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, the cancellation of a $3 billion wetland restoration project ...

Following several years of planning and preparation, the Redmond Wetlands Complex — a natural wastewater treatment system — is starting to take shape. Contractors for the multiphase project are ...

HOWARD – Just outside the mouth of Duck Creek in the bay of Green Bay, Valerie Brady hovered over her waterproof datasheet – a must for a wetland scientist. Raindrops pooled on top, which she pushed ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The Pleasure House Point Wetland Mitigation Project in Virginia Beach is designed to turn about a dozen acres of city-owned wooded land into its natural tidal wetland state. But ...

A new state-led project aims to keep roads dry and hospital access open during storms in a flood-prone part of Goldsboro. State officials broke ground Friday on a natural infrastructure pilot project ...

ROLLING FORK, Miss. — Anderson Jones first remembers his home flooding in 1973, when water from the nearby Mississippi River blanketed his family’s 10-acre farm and surrounded the shotgun house his ...

In the annals of coastal protection efforts in Louisiana, progress has never been in a straight line. Periods of vigorous activity have been followed by periods of re-evaluation and assessment. It ...

A team of remote sensing experts, ecosystem modelers, wetland managers, and ecologists worked together to develop a strategic plan for control of the invasive plant Phragmites australis in the Saginaw ...

NORFOLK, Va. — A first-of-its-kind agreement to protect wetlands from rising sea levels was signed in Norfolk on Tuesday. "Here we have a site where we are committing to make room for the wetlands as ...