A complex task: Carbon sequestration in marshes depends on many variables
While a single plant is capable of fixing inorganic carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, the entire ecosystem surrounding the ...
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As seas rise, marshes may still trap carbon and cool planet
As sea level rises, freshwater marshes get saltier and turn into salt marshes. Conventional wisdom has long held that as freshwater marshes shrink, they release carbon stored in their soil and ...
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Coastal wetlands funding benefits Biddeford, Kennebunkport
Restoring the salt marshes in Biddeford is important in improving ... sequester carbon in the soil, reintroduce bird and animal species to the property, and provide an important habitat for ...
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Nature reserve built with help of soil from Crossrail scheme is to expand
A marshland nature reserve built with the help of more than three million tonnes of soil from the Crossrail ... a new 115-hectare intertidal area of salt marsh, islands and mudflats at the Crouch ...