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"Over 75% of UK wetlands have been destroyed – restoring them would help prevent wildfires"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Wetlands

Over 75% of UK wetlands have been destroyed – restoring them would help prevent wildfires
The British landscape has been stripped of many of its bogs and wetlands in the last three centuries.

The intersection of many man-made actions - #ClimateCrisis, excessive #ResourceExtraction, #Wetlands "reclamation" - all in the interest of profit, now starting to show the actual costs.…

The mystery eating Ocean Beach alive
San Francisco is building a $175 million seawall meant to protect a threatened sewage plant. Scientists say it might destroy the beach.

The intersection of many man-made actions - #ClimateCrisis, excessive #ResourceExtraction, #Wetlands "reclamation" - all in the interest of profit, now starting to show the actual costs.…

The mystery eating Ocean Beach alive
San Francisco is building a $175 million seawall meant to protect a threatened sewage plant. Scientists say it might destroy the beach.

"Easily overlooked small wetlands are a big source of global methane"
#Methane #Wetlands #Environment

Easily overlooked small wetlands are a big source of global methane
Waterlogged land areas such as marshes, bogs and fens are the world's largest natural source of methane. Even the smallest of wetlands emit this powerful greenhouse gas. In a study from The University of Texas at Austin, researchers have identified tens of millions of easily overlooked small wetlands across the globe and found that they have a substantial collective impact, accounting for 24% of the world's total non-forested wetland emissions of methane. This research is published in Nature Cl…

"Revealing Europe’s Most Critical Wetlands"
#Europe #Wetlands #Environment