Many cultural traditions surrounding death are meant to preserve a person’s legacy. Yet few souls could ever have expected to be remembered for so long. Nor could they possibly imagine the amount of ...

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Traveling on the dry windswept northern coast of Peru, beside a spectacular landscape, one finds interesting ways whereby people make a living. That’s how we stumbled on a strange little raft made of ...

Along the marsh’s edge at Cache Creek Nature Preserve, 20 miles northwest of Sacramento, Diana Almendariz harvests bundles of tule (Schoenoplectus acutus)— green, smooth cylinders up to 10 feet high.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In the south of Mexico City lies a complex lake and canal system dotted with raised agricultural fields known as chinampas, which have been ...

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The expansion of many wetland species is a function of both clonal and sexual propagation. The production of ramets through clonal propagation enables plants to move and occupy space, while seeds ...

The Great Artesian Basin (GAB) lies within Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory. The GAB underlies about 22% of the Australian continent and is one of the largest ...

The ability of wetlands to accrete organic matter in response to rising sea level is a key to landscape resilience, especially in light of reduced sediment availability consequent to dam construction ...