Despite their value and importance, many lakes, rivers, and wetlands around the world are ... are highly vulnerable to pollution. Programs to protect freshwater habitats include planning ...

Wetlands connect land and water, serving as natural filters, reducing pollution, controlling floods, and acting as nurseries for many aquatic species. Rivers, lakes, and estuaries serve as ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. When photographer Mandy Barker returned to the English beach where she collected shells as a child, she found a ...

ByMatthew W. Chwastyk This story appears in the September 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Florida’s famed wetlands, the Everglades, are pinched between a burgeoning Miami to the east ...

This story appears in the November 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... It is one of the planet’s great wetlands, a vast splash of life-nurturing channels and lagoons and seasonal ...

Protecting and restoring wetlands is one of the ways we can help nature to help us. ByJohnny Langenheim Statistics would suggest that Canada has a veritable surplus of freshwater: fully one-fifth ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. If you licked one of these “treats,” you’d encounter cigarette butts, oil, oozing trash, and a whole lot of ...