Wetlands– tag –

Wetlands may look like unused land, but they help manage floods, filter water and store carbon. Their loss changes how entire watersheds function.

Each rainy season, the Tonle Sap River reverses and water from the Mekong expands the lake into forests and floodplains. This seasonal flood supports fish, farming, and food security, but its rhythm is changing.

Lake Chad shrank dramatically in the past, but its story is not one of steady disappearance. Its changing shoreline reshapes farmland, fishing grounds, pasture, and daily life across four countries.

Invasive species are quietly changing ponds, rivers, rice fields, and irrigation channels across Japan. But the problem is not simply about foreign organisms—it reflects how human society moves, sells, keeps, and releases other forms of life.