As such, one of the center's main tasks will be to gather local knowledge about wetlands around the world. Experiments must find local differences and solutions. Wetlands are far from uniform. Because ...

Peat bogs store twice as much CO2 as all of the world's forests combined. A new research center at the University of Copenhagen will map Earth’s wetlands and provide important knowledge about ...

Altogether, wetlands contain about a third of the world’s carbon, and when they’re degraded, the emissions locked in their soils are released. An expedition paddles along the Okavango River in ...

Around nine per cent of the world's space and approximately five per cent of Nepal's area are covered by wetlands. There are 163 wetlands in Tarai and 79 in the mountainous and hilly areas.

Wetlands around the world There are currently over 2,500 Ramsar Sites around the world . They cover over 2.5 million square kilometers, an area larger than Mexico.

Biebighauser, who lives in Morehead, travels the world to restore and build wetlands. He describes a wetland as a place with ...

Wetlands are among the most threatened ecosystems in the world. A new study, published in Nature, has found that the loss of wetland areas around the globe since 1700 has likely been overestimated.

An aerial view of the Pantanal wetlands, in Mato Grosso state, Brazil is pictured on March 8, 2018. A fifth of the Earth’s wetlands have been destroyed by humans over the past three centuries. A ...

The first comprehensive new map for the Mendenhall wetlands area since 1979 is nearing completion and the cartographer for the project — who started drawing local maps around that time — says ...

As the Salton Sea’s shoreline recedes, shallow wetlands are emerging on the playa. Audubon wants to enhance this natural process as a solution.

Peat bogs store twice as much CO2 as all of the world's forests combined. A new research center at the University of Copenhagen will map Earth’s wetlands and provide important knowledge about the ...