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Climate-friendly farming strategies can improve the land and generate income for...

Staff Writer - May 1, 2021

Lisa Schulte Moore, Iowa State University Agriculture has not been a central part of U.S. climate policy in the...

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Sea level rise is killing trees along the Atlantic coast, creating...

Staff Writer - April 8, 2021

Emily Ury, Duke University Trekking out to my research sites near North Carolina’s Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, I...

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Peatlands keep a lot of carbon out of Earth’s atmosphere, but...

Staff Writer - December 7, 2020

Julie Loisel, Texas A&M University Peatlands are a type of wetland where dead plant material doesn’t fully decompose because it’s too soggy. In these ecosystems,...

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As climate change erodes US coastlines, an invasive plant could become...

Staff Writer - April 4, 2019

Judith Weis, Rutgers University Newark Many invasive species are found along U.S. coasts, including fishes, crabs, mollusks and marsh grasses. Since the general opinion...

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Protecting the world’s wetlands: 5 essential reads

Staff Writer - February 3, 2019

Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation World Wetlands Day on Feb. 2 marks the date when 18 nations signed the Convention on Wetlands in 1971, in the...

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Small streams and wetlands are key parts of river networks –...

Staff Writer - January 31, 2019

Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University The Trump administration is proposing to redefine a key term in the Clean Water Act: “Waters of the United States.”...

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Protecting wetlands helps communities reduce damage from hurricanes and storms

Staff Writer - October 13, 2018

Siddharth Narayan, University of California, Santa Cruz and Michael Beck, University of California, Santa Cruz 2017 was the worst year on record for hurricane damage...

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As communities rebuild after hurricanes, study shows wetlands can significantly reduce...

Staff Writer - September 26, 2017

Siddharth Narayan, University of California, Santa Cruz and Michael Beck, University of California, Santa Cruz A 12-year “hurricane drought” during which no major hurricanes formed...