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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...
Australia: Abbot Point: study on dumping spoil in wetlands not required, Hunt says
2014-10-29 09:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The federal government has waived the need for a full environmental impact study into the dumping of dredging spoil onto sensitive wetlands under the plan to expand the Abbot Point coal port in Queensland. The federal environment minister, Greg Hunt, has agreed to a request by Queenslands deputy premier, Jeff Seeney, to assess the controversial project using only paperwork from a discredited original plan to dump spoil in Great Barrier Reef waters. The Australian Greens and environmental groups...
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Suffolk wetlands dispute bogs down warehouse plan
2014-09-15 05:41:14| Paper - Topix.net
The Army Corps of Engineers has declared that major portions of this property in Suffolk are entitled to federal protection as wetlands. Scott Camp, a residential real estate developer in the Richmond area who bought the property from International Paper in 2008, insists the property is not wetlands.
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House Committee Questions Purpose of EPA Waters and Wetlands Maps
2014-08-29 13:03:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee The U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology raises questions about the Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) creation of and intended use for maps highlighting waters and wetlands for all 50 states. read more
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Man-made wetlands turn wastewater into tap water
2014-08-03 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: As murky water snakes through a man-made wetland between Dallas and Houston, its shallow ponds of lush vegetation slowly filter out phosphorous and nitrates until, a week later, the water runs clear as a creek into the area drinking supply. The 2,000-acre wetland system in Fairfield converts what is mainly treated wastewater that would otherwise flow into the Gulf of Mexico into an additional 65,000 gallons per day feeding the Richland-Chambers Reservoir - a significant contribution in a state...
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