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Restoring wetlands can lessen soil sinkage, greenhouse gas emissions, study finds

2014-11-01 09:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: The study, which is one of the first to continually measure the fluctuations of both carbon and methane as they cycle through wetlands, appears in the journal by Global Change Biology. Worldwide, agricultural drainage of organic soils has resulted in vast soil subsidence and contributed to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. The California Delta was drained more than a century ago for agriculture and human settlement and has since experienced subsidence rates that are among the...

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