Wetlands also provide many environmental services. Wetland areas help remove sediments and pollutants from surface waters and aid nutrient recycling within ecosystems. Wetlands capture and retain ...

Scientists are abandoning hope that a hardy plant from Europe can revive vast stretches of Louisiana wetlands targeted by a seemingly unstoppable plague of Asian insects. Louisiana State University ...

There seems to be a question in one branch of the highest level of our government as to the importance of wetland habitats. The conservation district has created and is working to further enhance our ...

As a child, I held a small interest in insects. Sure, I did my fair share of dissecting ants, and by dissecting I mean pulling off the occasional leg and separating them between their thorax and ...

A global assessment of more than 6,000 dragonfly and damselfly species shows that 16% are at risk of extinction. The main threats to these insects are the human destruction of their wetland habitats, ...

New study documents 12 pygmy grasshopper species at Kerala's Kole wetlands, including four first records for the state.

A conservation team in Missouri just found one of North America's scarcest insects, WRIC reported. Scientists spotted a male Hine's emerald dragonfly in June on private property in Bollinger County.

World Migratory Bird Day is this weekend, where those of us in the Midwest and around the world enjoy and celebrate the sight of birds who migrate through our area. Some birds that pass through our ...