Peat bogs store twice as much CO 2 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 ...
(WKYT) - On Round Hill Farm in Oldham County, Wildlife Biologist and Wetland Ecologist Tom Biebighauser leads us on a walk past fields of wildflowers and native plants. He wants to show us a natural ...
From freshwater spaces to bogs, swamps, marshes and beyond, wetlands are distinct climates and ecosystems that play major roles in the air we breathe. Not only that, they house 40% of all plant and ...
This ecosystem by many names—bogs, swamps, bayous, marshes, billabongs, fens, vernal pools, lagoons and other waterlogged fields and forests all fall under the broad wetland category. If water, salty ...
About 3 miles east of Bombay Beach, and a half-mile back from the Salton Sea’s receding shoreline, the crunchy exposed playa gives way from a mostly empty white landscape to more and more native ...
A new report finds that up to 20% of the world’s wetlands could be lost in the next 25 years. The “Global Wetland Outlook 2025,” produced under the Ramsar Convention, an international treaty for ...
A collaboration of innovative educational programs is merging space age and down-to-Earth field research to help students develop a better understanding of disappearing wetlands. Students will use ...
On World Wetlands Day, the world’s ‘Great Lakes’ are Exhibit A for why wetlands matter: Ted Lawrence
YPSILANTI, Michigan -- It might not be grabbing headlines around the globe, but tomorrow’s U.N. World Wetlands Day matters. Wetlands across the globe provide many services, from improving water ...
NAIROBI (Reuters) -The global destruction of wetlands, which support fisheries, agriculture and flood control, may mean the loss of $39 trillion in economic benefits by 2050, according to a report by ...
On World Wetlands Day, naturalists and environmentalists reveal sites to visit in and around Mumbai that are home to these unheralded natural ecosystems. Plus practical tips on how you can help make a ...
Around 100 people are employed across the parks and protected areas that make up the Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands World Natural Heritage site on Georgia’s eastern coast. They are responsible for ...
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