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To the right of a vast wetland, with tall reeds of wild rice covering the ground, sit three canoes, and a person stands and looks across the landscape.
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Climate Change Threatens the Future of Wild Rice

by Grace van Deelen 18 December 202321 December 2023

As a precious plant struggles to thrive in the U.S. Upper Midwest, researchers are taking steps to understand the reasons for its decline.

A winding river is overflowing its banks.
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Natural Floodplains Are Quickly Vanishing

by Deepa Padmanaban 18 September 202318 September 2023

From 1992 to 2019, 600,000 square kilometers of natural floodplains were lost globally due to land conversion.

A lush wetland area, with low bushes rising from the water, under a blue sky
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Better Bottom-Up Estimates of Wetland Methane Emissions

by Nathaniel Scharping 13 September 202313 September 2023

Limited monitoring of methane emissions from tropical wetlands could be obscuring these environments’ role in climate change.

Black and white photo looking up the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building
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The Supreme Court Is Bypassing Science—We Can’t Ignore It

by Adam S. Ward and Adell Amos 6 September 202312 September 2023

The court’s exclusion of scientists from the environmental rulemaking process comes full circle as the EPA strips federal protections for wetlands.

A beaver dam made of numerous small branches sits in a small pond, with mountains in the distance.
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Mapping Beaver Dams with Machine Learning

Sarah Derouin, Science Writer by Sarah Derouin 15 June 202315 June 2023

A new model deploys a neural network to spot beavers’ engineering exploits in aerial and satellite imagery, an approach that should aid studies of ecosystem and landscape change.

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A Turning Point for Estuaries Worldwide

by Gonéri Le Cozannet 4 April 20237 June 2023

As estuarine barriers are built in response to sea level rise, flooding, and salinization, more research is needed to better understand their implications for human activities and ecosystems.

Panorama of a wetland
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Mapping Wetland Loss Across Three Centuries

by Carolyn Wilke 10 March 202310 March 2023

Millions of square kilometers of wetlands have been drained or converted to make room for crops, pastures, or development. In some places, up to 80% are gone.

A cloudy sky above a landscape of evergreens and trees lacking any leaves, a cascade of beaver ponds cuts through the forest. On the right side of one of the ponds, a moose stands with its head down, reflected in the water.
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Scientists EEAGER-ly Track Beavers Across Western United States

by Alka Tripathy-Lang 3 January 20233 January 2023

Efficiently tracking nature’s engineers—beavers—at the scale of entire watersheds over time is now possible, thanks to a new artificial intelligence–trained model called EEAGER.

A sunset casts pink hues onto clouds over a waterway, with trees silhouetted against the light.
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Measuring the Ins and Outflows of Estuaries

by Saima May Sidik 8 November 20228 November 2022

Scientists modeled monitoring schemes in three different estuaries to determine instrument layouts that could effectively and efficiently measure exchanges of salt water and freshwater.

Map of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in Alaska
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The Burning Tundra

by Marguerite A. Xenopoulos 4 October 202219 January 2023

As wildfires blaze through the Arctic, scientists examine the role of landscape characteristics on wildfire ecosystem responses in northern aquatic ecosystems.

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