Ralph Temmink News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Wetland restoration is improving, increasing their ability to be used as a natural and sustainable tool to combat climate change.

These soggy places can hold carbon at ten times the density of a forest. It’s easier to break a bog than to repair it—but it’s still a carbon bargain.

Bogs and marshes are global ‘hotspots’ of carbon storage; they can hold carbon at ten times the density of a forest | Anthropocene Magazine

Human activities such as marsh draining for agriculture and logging are increasingly eating away at saltwater and freshwater wetlands that cover only 1%

Human activities such as marsh draining for agriculture and logging are increasingly eating away at saltwater and freshwater wetlands that cover only 1% of Earth’s surface but store more than 20% of all the climate-warming carbon dioxide absorbed by ecosystems worldwide. A new study published May 5 in Science by a team of Dutch, American and German scientists shows that it’s not too late to reverse the losses.