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01 May 2026

• Army Corps narrows its scope of regulated wetlands
  The agency is still regulating some wetlands, despite the suggestion otherwise from a senior administration official, the Army Corps said.
• 35% of world's wetlands disappeared in last 50 years
  Considered the world's most threatened ecosystems, over 35% of the world's wetlands have disappeared in the last 50 years, according to the official website of World Wetlands Day. The importance of...
• New digital atlas sheds light on Africa's wetlands
  Since the 1970s more than a third of the world’s wetlands have disappeared, largely due to climate change and urbanization.
• Swampscott trail project faces wetlands review
  The Conservation Commission met Wednesday night to discuss the Archer Trails project, focusing on a portion of the trail network that falls within a regulated wetlands buffer area.  The Commission’s...
• Quin Hillyer: For wetlands, stop the lawsuits. Adopt a coastal fee instead.
  Now that the Supreme Court, for now, has thrown out a $745 million judgment against Chevron for damage to Louisiana’s wetlands, it’s time to squash the lawsuits and resurrect an idea pushed by 1980s...