All of these projects contained edible gardens in some form — "WetLand" hosted chickens and bees as well — and both "Waterpod" and "WetLand" were aquatic structures.
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Shortly after, the North American Wetland Conservation Act (NAWCA) was created as a means to fund this ambitious new plan to conserve and restore wetland habitat.
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One of the best examples of wetland restoration is the 104-hectare Mugandu-Buramba wetland in Kabale district, which drains into Lake Bunyonyi, Africa's second-deepest lake.
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In Biology Letters this Wednesday, the authors report that this duckweed can likely hop entirely intact from wetland to wetland by hitching a ride in the feces of birds.
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Wetland plants sit in dried clumps away from the water.
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Moreover, climate considerations are often not integrated into wetland management.
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Scientists are turning a cranberry bog back into coastal wetland.
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It includes one of the largest wetland restoration efforts ever undertaken.
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What if a developer filled in a wetland for a building?
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But it seems that wetland trees are much more than conduits.
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Narrator: Cranberries begin as vines in wetland fields called a bog.
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The atmosphere is dark and foreboding, in a wetland smattered with decay.
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The New Orleans nuns creating America's biggest urban wetland, writes Kristin Toussaint.
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Will it take a worldwide wetland blitzkrieg to save frogs from mass extinction?
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NAWCA is the single most successful wetland habitat conservation tool in our toolbox.
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Pruitt is the swamp, the only wetland the Trump administration wants to protect.
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As a graduate student in the 1990s, Dr. Fischer, now a biologist with the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, traveled through Brazil's Pantanal, a tropical wetland the size of Wisconsin, and the largest freshwater wetland in the world.
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Seawater is being added to a freshwater wetland, and scientists are observing what happens.
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Ducks Unlimited, a Boone and Crockett offshoot, became an early force for wetland conservation.
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But that risks damaging the wetland in the process of trying to save it.
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"In wetland systems, trees send a lot of carbon into their roots," says Pangala.
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Wetland water isn't usually drinkable, and hunting and navigation aren't easy in small channels.
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Regulators are also moving to roll back rules on power plants and wetland pollution.
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But as the climate warms wetland soils, microbial metabolism increases, releasing additional greenhouse gases.
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She made the stream, beaver dam, pond, wetland, vegetation, and the fire out of felt.
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United States, which questioned whether a Michigan wetland was protected under the Clean Water Act.
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Similar European prehistoric wetland sites have been found before, but nothing quite like this one.
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Once it was a huge wetland carved by a network of intertwined, constantly shifting waterways.
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For instance, researchers at the University of New Hampshire received $102,000 to assess wetland functions.
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Eleven of the 15 species are endangered, primarily due to wetland habitat loss but also poaching.
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Others areas in the list are generally less politically touchy, including climate change and wetland conservation.
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So-called "white zones"—vast expanses of dead vegetation—speckle America's largest wetland like canker sores.
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His father is the owner of New England Wetland Plants, a conservation nursery, in Amherst, Mass.
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Activists say that land is home to protected wetland and a sacred Native American burial site.
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Knight said they lived in a wetland environment, but they routinely moved between water and land.
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Manning says that just 10 acres of wetland can treat runoff from 1,000 acres of corn.
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In Spain, non-native crayfish serve as prey for migratory wetland birds, including some endangered species.
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"It can be viewed as a massive extension of today's Okavango Delta wetland area," Timmermann said.
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The pipes connect two wetland areas, and mussels attach themselves to the sides of the pipes.
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The illegal shantytown emerged on a public wetland after 1989's Hurricane Hugo left thousands homeless.
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In the wetland sections, there are native meadow grasses such as evergreen fescues and tufted hair grass.
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Others said the rollback will lead to pollution in some of the country's most sensitive wetland areas.
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Construction—laying down impermeable surfaces like concrete where there was once dirt or wetland—makes floods worse.
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Most Houstonians casually accept this drainage system that keeps them dry, albeit precariously, in a former wetland.
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Mattingly initially conceived "WetLand" — a repurposed 1971 Rockwell Whitcraft houseboat — for the Philadelphia nonprofit FringeArts in 2014.
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Each dollar of that $2900 billion was used for the explicit purpose of wetland restoration and conservation.
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Since its launch, "WetLand" has hosted artist residences, performances, and talks, from the programmed to the impromptu.
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The normally arid lake has come back to life, with birds and other small mammals enjoying the wetland.
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As the human population increases, and sea levels rise, flamingos' wetland habitats will be developed, destroyed, and polluted.
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And so the scientists have rushed to defend the good name of this noble wetland ecosystem with #ReignTheSwamp.
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Overall, they calculated that a percentage point increase in wetland area reduced flood losses by more than 3%.
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The park is divided into four zones representing the specific geography of Russia: wetland, forest, steppe and tundra.
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They share a preference for wetland habitats and their swimming styles are similar, but muskrats are considerably smaller.
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Wetland restoration could be funded through a tax on chemical fertilizer, which would also spur more judicious use.
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"We find a total footprint of 50-65 million tons of methane annually from wetland trees," she says.
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Yet, despite Nanhui's "sponge city" label, some of the last wetland ecosystems in the area are being decimated.
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With wetland protections and hunting regulations, waterfowl like ducks, geese and swans have restored their populations, Marra says.
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In Miami Beach, officials have floated the idea of transforming a golf course into a water-absorbing wetland.
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It's also considering ways to sequester carbon through nature-based solutions like forestry, wetland restoration, and grassland conservation.
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It was ETP's second release into this wetland after spilling between 2000,000-10,000 gallons in the area in October.
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There are no residences near the site and the wetland is not a source of drinking water, he said.
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If a piece of property has water on it for more than 30 days, it's now considered a wetland.
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It is illegal to divert water from the river in wetland areas the government deems to be protected sites.
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The current route – which has always been the preferred route – was chosen because it has far fewer wetland crossings.
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Also, while bad actors have logged bottomland wetland forests, the evidence for widespread abuses of the kind is lacking.
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Until the 19th century, the Pripyat River basin on the border between Ukraine and Belarus was wetland and forest.
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The trust will also create a wetland tidal pool next to the pier in the river for educational purposes.
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At the same time, microbes in wetland soils release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as they consume organic matter.
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Unfolding here now is an ambitious project: turning a cranberry bog back into the coastal wetland it once was.
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But in 2014, nearly 150 birds showed up at a constructed wetland in the Everglades ecosystem in Central Florida.
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EQT said the decision affects steam and wetland crossings along about 160 miles of the pipeline route in West Virginia.
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"We're delighted to welcome the new species that have arrived at Caerlaverock Wetland Centre today," said Centre Manager Brian Morrell.
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While drilling that first pipe, the company spilled about 2 million gallons of drilling fluid into a wetland in April.
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Because locals referred to the area as chad , the Europeans called the wetland Lake Chad, and drew it on maps.
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In the Neolithic period, Mesopotamia was a delta wetland, where the sea came many miles inland from its current shore.
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"Everywhere you have an image of huge monstrous buildings looking at you from all sides of the wetland," he said.
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In the board game Wingspan, published on Friday, players assign birds with various powers to wetland, grassland and forest habitats.
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The effect is that the home soars above the 15-acre wetland meadow with a series of landings and balconies.
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Although global climate agreements have been slow to protect wetland carbon, promising steps are starting to occur at lower levels.
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Great harm will be done because, once a stream or wetland has been filled or drained, it is lost forever.
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"It's hard to throw a rock without hitting a wetland," said Ryan Billingham, spokesman for the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters.
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This acted like a map, creating a single region as an origin point: the Makgadikgadi-Okavango palaeo-wetland in southern Africa.
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The Coorong, an important wetland near the river's mouth, has been polluted with salt and algae as the river's flow diminishes.
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"Show me your swamp monsters," he tweeted last week with the hashtag #ReignTheSwamp, and holy shit did Wetland Ecology Twitter deliver.
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Borneo's forests consist largely of peatland, a type of wetland that holds about 12 times more carbon than other tropical rainforests.
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But as some waterways returned, others were disappearing because of rising sea levels, which are overtaking wetland areas, Mr. Kensinger said.
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The sanctuary is part of a project to return the former cranberry bog to its natural state as a coastal wetland.
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Though grassland and forest birds alike experienced a loss in total population across the board, wetland birds were a notable outlier.
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The herons of the Courtly Hunt Cards step gracefully in a wetland landscape worthy of Audubon, with distant vistas and shimmering pools.
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The community lies on what used to be a wetland and is surrounded by two rivers, the Las Palmas and the Tempisque.
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The Pantanal, a vast tropical wetland in Brazil, is home to one of the highest densities of wild jaguars in the world.
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Some areas are soaked wetland, but much is elevated, islands of hilly tundra so large they have their own rivers and ponds.
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After the last extension of the commercial area, I saw migrants swirling around in the sky, looking for the old dried wetland.
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At the Parrish, as in Philadelphia, "WetLand" functions as a semi-sustainable residency and a platform for Mattingly to demonstrate DIY solutions.
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The water crisis has also sparked all kinds of innovation and marketing opportunities, including building an artificial wetland to purify contaminated water.
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The pipeline has leaked roughly 6900,2628 gallons of crude oil, impacting an estimated half-acre of wetland, according to state environmental regulators.
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The pipeline has leaked roughly 383,000 gallons of crude oil, impacting an estimated half-acre of wetland, according to state environmental regulators.
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In fact, the highlight of the stop was the Y Water Discovery Centre, a large wetland area for hiking and nature watching.
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Ecologists are designing the project to make sure wetland plants have a route to migrate inland and upslope as the water rises.
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And last year, the chemical agency for the European Union proposed phasing out the use of lead ammunition across all wetland areas.
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He was one of 10 children of Thomas and Doris (Coleman) Stickells, farm laborers in a wetland area called the Romney Marsh.
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It is one of Africa's oldest reserves and the largest protected wetland in Central Africa, featuring a dozen papyrus-lined, swampy lakes.
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We sponsor Keep America Beautiful chapters, and support Audubon Florida and Ducks Unlimited efforts to restore, preserve and protect Florida's wetland habitats.
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Ms. Boulet likes to bring her dogs and watch the sun set on the cattail fringe of the wetland with a pint.
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But a recent aerial flyover by wetland ecologist Steve Davis of the Everglades Foundation revealed widespread destruction of seagrass beds in Florida Bay.
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"If there's ice rich permafrost in soils, and it starts to thaw, it gets replaced by a lake or flooded wetland," Turetsky explained.
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Selfish economic actors will never protect the vulnerable commons of the atmosphere, or a wetland, or an ocean with dwindling stocks of tuna.
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In her coursework, Burhans begin using geographic or geospatial information systems, GIS, to better plan wetland restoration on individual parcels of nearby land.
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A cynic might look at his record and say McConnell has been part of the D.C. swamp since it was a mere wetland.
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Like the early civilization of China in the Yellow River Valley, Mesopotamia was a wetland territory, as its name ("between the rivers") suggests.
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We do not preserve a wetland, we promote it; we do not preserve the black rhino, we foster or advance or endorse it.
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We have hemmed in the natural world with urban forms, making it impossible for a wetland to retreat and adapt to changing conditions.
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The birds were roosting in a marsh in the Ebro Delta, a 79,000-acre wetland a couple hours south of his hometown Barcelona.
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The company said it will invest in technology that removes carbon emissions from the atmosphere, as well as wetland restoration and grassland conservation.
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Part of the 3.5 million acre area includes a wetland ecosystem that serves as a habitat for moose, bison, wolverine, caribou, and waterfowl.
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Tropical rainforests and peatlands — wetland ecosystems that contain peat, a spongy, organic material formed by partially decayed plants — store huge amounts of carbon.
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People have altered or destroyed three-quarters of land environments, two-thirds of marine habitats, and 85 percent of the most important wetland regions.
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Because it's designed to convert the entire area into a wetland, the NRCS program required that all 40 households take part in the relocation.
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Last September, Carlos Antonio Lozada, a commander of Colombia's FARC guerrillas, returned home to a jungle encampment in the vast wetland region called Yarí.
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Boston recently studied a sea barrier, but rejected it in favor of a mix of onshore measures like retractable flood walls and wetland terraces.
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Protected mangrove and wetland areas in coastal parts of Honduras and Costa Rica are "attractive for supplying maritime routes and warehousing cocaine", researchers wrote.
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Not far from Miami lies Everglades National Park, a 1.5 million-acre wetland that is home to the American crocodile and the Florida panther.
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His center reintroduced some critically endangered Delacour's langurs to the wild in the Van Long Wetland Nature Reserve, about 523 minutes down the road.
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Raising questions over how we attain basic needs of food and water, "WetLand" feeds off the growing movements of urban farming and food cooperatives.
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It shows a beaver building a dam and transforming the forest upstream into a marshy wetland filled with splotches of vegetation in shades of green.
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The first I ever visited was the Point Reyes Shipwreck in Inverness: an abandoned boat lodged into the wetland that is now a local monument.
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But farmers have used and protected the wetland for decades in line with management plans, enabling them to earn a living and maintain its biodiversity.
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Last year, farmers in Sunamganj, a wetland-dotted northeastern district considered the country's lightning capital, had difficulty finding enough workers at harvest season, he said.
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If anything, the documents suggest SpaceX's new Starship development would decrease the company's disruption in the area, including noise levels, wildlife effects, and wetland impacts.
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These particular birds have benefited from endangered-species legislation in the US and Canada and from wetland restoration work across the continent, the researchers said.
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If wetland loss were to happen at a constant rate, it would amount to about a football field every hour, according to a 23 estimate.
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Josephine Kateba, whose farm is adjacent to Rugando wetland, lost her cassava, maize, beans and groundnuts to the monkeys, who also eat bananas and guava.
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The Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay provides scientific advice to the city on wetland restoration and making neighborhoods resilient to floods and storms.
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One of the leaders in Higher Ground has been working solidly for three years as a full-time volunteer to protect a wetland from development.
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Teshekpuk Lake is also one of the most productive wetland complexes in the Arctic and vital nesting habitat for hundreds of thousands of migratory birds.
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The proposed rule also lists 17 obstacles that jurisdictions can choose to address, like wetland or environmental regulations, but those do not include racial discrimination.
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Ron DeSantis, a Republican, called it the largest wetland acquisition in a decade and said the purchase will permanently save these lands from oil drilling.
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Since 2013, hundreds of square miles of these wetland filters have been sprayed with dozens of different herbicides at a cost of over $100 million.
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These birds actually experienced a modest rise in population during the studied timeframe, something the authors attribute to the positive effects of wetland conservation efforts.
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Eggleston's hometown in Sumner, Mississippi, is included in the series with a photo of a group of wetland trees, balanced like a trifecta of native species.
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Buddy Huffaker directs the Aldo Leopold Foundation, and the family lives in a wood and glass house Leopold's daughter Nina built on the pristine wetland there.
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This is a diverse wetland park, National Heritage Site and World Heritage Site, located along the subtropical coastline between Kwazulu-Natal and the border of Mozambique.
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After watching a freshwater wetland get hosed down with brine, Mazzei and I drive south to a brackish site, where the same treatment is being applied.
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Under the rule, farmers or companies would need federal permission before using certain fertilizers if their land was near a stream or a wetland, for example.
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The construction of wetland buffers between farms and streams can also keep pollutants out of waterways, while slowing floods and restoring habitat for birds and wildlife.
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"We know emissions from [non-wetland] trees are lower, but there is a far larger area of upland forests in the world to emit," says Megonigal.
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No matter how "eco-friendly", roadside planters, rooftop gardens and isolated patches of green cannot sustain the same ecosystem functions as a well-protected wetland park.
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That's right, the same fish that are often kept in tiny bowls, swimming in circles, navigate in droves to an off-channel wetland during breeding season.
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In their least productive areas, farmers could shift acres from growing a crop to storing carbon by establishing a wetland, planting trees or creating pollinator habitat.
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Winding paths, just wide enough for two, meandered south, coiling along the waterfront, weaving through thickets of tall bluestem grasses, wetland pools and flowering rose bushes.
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In Japan, for example, cultivated farmland and wetland systems called satoyama, where fireflies thrive, are disappearing as more people migrate to cities and abandon traditional agriculture.
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Arctic permafrost, which is wetland soil that remains frozen for two consecutive years, stores nearly twice as much carbon as the current amount in the atmosphere.
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Instead of bayonet charges and musket fire, this conflict has unleashed more modern means of warfare: legal briefs and wetland studies, public hearings and dueling historical assessments.
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Back during the Holocene, this area was a wetland ecosystem, featuring such animals as giant lemurs, hippos, giant tortoises, crocodiles, and, as the new study suggests, humans.
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Built on a patch of wetland, the camp is nestled between a residential area and the A2000 motorway that connects Dunkirk to the port city of Calais.
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The April spill occurred while drilling under the Tuscarawas River in Ohio and released about 2 million gallons (7.6 million liters) of drilling fluid into a wetland.
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The rule would require farmers or companies to obtain federal permission before they used certain fertilizers, for example, if their land was near a stream or wetland.
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In 1980, they signed a community conservation agreement with the government, giving them incentives to look after the wetland, including permission to plant crops on its edges.
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Property developers and golf-course owners often have their plans stymied by wetland protections (why Mr Trump might be sensitive to their plight remains a mystery). Fore!
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This, coupled with farming run-off that has boosted salinity, again threatens wetland wildlife, vegetation and the local Marsh Arabs who have depended on them for millennia.
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Water is then drained from the salt-tolerant crops (5) and fed into a mangrove wetland, where it is naturally purified and carbon can be sequestered (6).
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Enviva is not only increasing pollution but also clearcutting critical wetland forests in economically-depressed, rural communities bearing the brunt of the impacts of recent extreme flooding.
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"We were walking dirt roads along canals, looking for snakes that were basking alongside them, in a landscape of grassy wetland," said Steen, a veteran snake-spotter.
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Even if the offset mechanism — say a restored wetland — is in your country, it doesn't count toward your climate goals if another country is paying for it.
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The ancient lake Makgadikgadi began to break up about 200,000 years ago, giving rise to a sprawling wetland region inhabited by human hunter-gatherers, the researchers said.
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But Jeanne Christie, the executive director of the Association of State Wetland Managers, a nonprofit organization based in Maine, said it had been a difficult learning process.
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Further, funding for voluntary relocations and land conservation programs, such as the Land and Water Conservation Fund and North American Wetland Conservation Act should be significantly increased.
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