Gathered round Martha’s Pond in New Jersey’s iconic Pine Barrens, students in Claude Epstein’s environmental science class ...

And we are continuing to degrade and destroy them – rivers and reefs, marshes and mangroves, swamps and seagrass beds. The world's freshwater and ocean wetlands are our life support systems. They are ...

Life-giving rivers, which feed lakes and seas, are in turn fed by springs, creeks, swamps, wetlands and underground aquifers ... The reverse is also true: Protecting freshwater wildlife safeguards ...