Warming temperatures may cause methane emissions from wetlands to rise — by helping methane-producing bacteria thrive. Higher temperatures favor the activity of wetland soil microbes that produce the ...

Katy Smith, a professor at the school, is studying the impact of wetland plants on the restoration of contaminated soil sediments. Katy Smith illustrates some of her research into wetland plants and ...

In the soils of Earth's wetlands, microbes are in a tug-of-war to produce and consume the powerful greenhouse gas methane. But if the Earth gets too hot, it could tip the scale in favor of the methane ...

Teasing apart the sources of organic carbon stored in coastal wetland soils around the world was the "grand challenge" Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) scientists successfully tackled in ...

PERRY, MI — It would be easy to mistake the 186-acres along E. Beard Road in Shiawassee County as nothing more than soggy, uncultivated farmland. But the property, about 20 miles northeast of Lansing, ...

This summer has been marked by severe flooding across our country, from New Mexicoto New York City to North Carolina to Texas, where a devastating flash flood killed more than 130people, including 37 ...

A federal appeals court panel of judges has sided with the state of Michigan after a company whose operator accused of destroying wetlands in Bay County said the government took soil and water samples ...

Federal approval moves energy project forward in Wisconsin—while a tribe’s legal fight and water-quality questions linger.

Anna Marija Helt, High Country News The resinous scent of Engelmann spruce wafted over a shallow, mossy pool surrounded by ...