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Restore estuaries to help coastal communities prepare for climate change
2014-09-13 00:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The World Meteorological Organizations recent report noted a diminishing ability of the worlds oceans and plant life to soak up the excess carbon put into the atmosphere but failed to look at the growing body of science supporting coastal blue carbon, the ability for coastal wetlands to sequester and store carbon emissions [CO2 rising at much faster rate, report finds, front page, Sept. 9]. In the United States, these wetlands include salt marshes in the San Francisco and Chesapeake bays,...
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