On Tuesday, the state’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) officially began to reconnect the Mississippi River with the Maurepas Swamp, a degraded and submerged swamp forest directly ...

Environmentalists are raising alarm over the deteriorating condition of Ratargul, the freshwater swamp forest in Sylhet, citing both tourists’ carelessness and authorities’ negligence. The forest’s ...

Without a diversion from the Mississippi River or the introduction of other sources of fresh water in the near future, the Maurepas Swamp in southeast Louisiana will continue on a clear path toward ...

Kiriamma Ulpatha is a rare freshwater swamp forest, one of the very few of its kind in Sri Lanka. It lies at the base of the Kaluganga valley in the eastern slopes of the Knuckles mountain range, a ...

There are few young trees in an unhealthy area of the Maurepas Swamp. It is suffering from a lack of freshwater from natural flooding and from the penetration of saltwater through canals dug for ...

What happens to animals when their forest is cut down? If they can, they migrate to different forests. But in an age when forests are falling far and fast, many species may have to shift to entirely ...

Louisiana’s coastal restoration agency has gotten $14 million to engineer a system to reconnect the Mississippi River to the Maurepas Swamp, which has been cut off from its rejuvenating floodwaters ...