wetlands

Image of a stream on farm land in Iowa without conservation riparian buffers

Lynn Betts/USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

November 19, 2025

From Fields to Faucets: Fertilizer Overuse Threatens Drinking Water and Health

Stacy Woods
Research Director

A great blue heron catches a white perch on the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge.

Derrick Z. Jackson

July 7, 2025

Administration Cuts Would Leave No Refuge for the Wildlife Refuges

Derrick Z. Jackson
Former Fellow

aerial photo of prairie potholes--numerous small ponds spread among a landscape of flat green farm fields

Marcie Hebert/USFWS

May 6, 2025

Wetlands and Streams Face a New Threat from the Trump Administration

Stacy Woods
Research Director

photo of wetlands, with streams meandering through patches of brown grass and a stand of trees on the horizon, set against a blue sky

February 13, 2025

Ask a Scientist: What Value Do Wetlands Provide?

Guest Commentary

A bald eagle stands in a wetlands wildlife refuge.

Derrick Z. Jackson

October 17, 2024

Wetland Protections Remain Bogged Down in Mystery

Derrick Z. Jackson
Former Fellow

aerial photo of a section of Everglades National Park, with multiple streams winding through lush green wetlands

January 3, 2024

The Supreme Court Ruled Against Wetlands in 2023. We Can Still Save Them.

Stacy Woods
Research Director

A large "FOR SALE" sign looms on the lawn in front of the US Supreme Court, in a photo taken in 2010 as a protest against Citizens United

takomabibelot/Flickr

July 20, 2023

Roundup: Supreme Court Problems and a New Scientific Integrity Policy

Liz Borkowski
Science Network Contributor

bird in wetland

Rachel C/Unsplash

June 6, 2023

Bridge to Troubled Waters: US Supreme Court Guts Wetlands Protections

Derrick Z. Jackson
Former Fellow

Supreme Court at night

Wikimedia Commons

May 19, 2022

Roe v. Wade Draft Bodes Ill for Air, Wetlands and EPA

Derrick Z. Jackson
Former Fellow

January 27, 2020

America’s Wetlands: Vital, Ignored, and Now Defined Away by the Trump Administration

Genna Reed
Former Staff

November 7, 2017

The Natural Ways to (Help) Solve the Climate Problem

Doug Boucher
Former Contributor

February 7, 2017

Restoring America's Wetland Forest Legacy

UCS Science Network