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A pilot scheme reintroducing beavers has created a green, wet corridor which could be valuable during hot, dry summers.
The first full-scale trial of its kind, this floating wetland cut greenhouse gases by nearly a third over two years.
The British landscape has been stripped of many of its bogs and wetlands in the last three centuries.
Wetlands are increasingly appreciated for their role in flood prevention and as carbon sinks. But they also act as a crucial food source for the wider catchment.
Seismic lines fragment forests and alter their ability to act as habitats and provide climate change mitigation benefits.
Ancient carbon is leaking from two lakes in the Congo Basin, revealing a previously unknown link between tropical peatlands and the atmosphere.
Long-term studies by citizen scientists help us understand changes in nature
Europe is rethinking security: as geopolitical tensions rise, Russia looms and climate risks intensify, can restoring nature help defend both nations and the planet?
A new project is transforming badly affected peatlands from dark moonscapes to vibrant green moss-scapes.
In the Prairie Pothole Region, millions of wetlands fill, spill and connect in ways that defy prediction. Combining hydrology with AI offers a path forward.
As beavers reshape rivers, wetlands become a natural storage system for carbon.
Capturing floodwater in the winter could help avoid summer droughts, research suggests.
Some tout wetland drainage as providing numerous benefits, including reducing emissions. This assertion is not supported by science.
London has lost the natural buffer that used to help water drain away. As the sea level rises and storm surges get more prevalent, chances of flooding are greater.
Like living beyond your financial means, using more water than nature can replenish can have catastrophic results.
For the first time, countries now have a shared way to understand whether the world is actually improving at adapting to climate impacts.
Warblers in high mountain wetlands change their dawn singing with temperature, rain, wind, humidity and moonlight, showing how weather shapes wildlife behaviour.
The Moss Landing battery fire became an unintended experiment – showing how burning lithium-ion cells scattered nickel, cobalt and manganese over a protected marsh.
In Ghana, the degradation of wetlands is widespread and many are in poor condition.
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Professor in Natural Sciences, Bangor University
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Adjunct Professor, Charles Sturt University
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Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Professor in School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences; and Director of Environmental Futures Research Centre, University of Wollongong
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