The researchers found that freshwater marshes had the largest effect.
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Hippo dung sucks oxygen from riverside marshes, dooming some fish.
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Chris Christie in 2015 for cleaning up marshes and waterways.
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Hussein's policies in the area nearly drained the marshes completely, but after he was deposed during the second Iraq war, the marshes saw a brief recovery period which ended with the severe drought of 2007.
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The American South is full of flood plains, swamps, and marshes.
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They live in freshwater environments, such as ponds, marshes and rivers.
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Today, this is causing the marshes' thick peat soils to collapse.
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I've always wanted to go to the marshes with my camera.
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Others drain wide marshes with tangled networks of tubes and pumps.
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But the colonel's starting point, like the novel's, is the marshes.
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Salt marshes and mangrove forests protect coasts from hurricanes and storms.
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Eggs are collected from six sites throughout the UK: the North Solent nature reserve, Lymington marshes, Pylewell and Keyhaven marshes in Hampshire, Barden Moor in North Yorkshire, and the Upper Teesdale nature reserve in County Durham.
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The salt marshes in Aigues-Mortes have been operating since Roman times.
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Barrier islands and coastal marshes threaten to disappear because of global warming.
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"The government is now trying to flood the marshes," Ms. Hajjar said.
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I remember the sunshine, the beaches, the smell of the salt marshes.
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If you were to go exploring there, our friends at the park service say, you would find shallow-water marine habitats, saltwater wetland forests and marshes, freshwater marshes and prairies, and upland complexes of pine and hardwood forests.
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The lush marshes on Hunting Island provide the best views of the sunset.
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Swamps: Recent hurricanes have shown how powerfully salt marshes can protect human communities.
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In short, Ma'dan cultural knowledge was drying up in tandem with the marshes.
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That has happened ever since they've been living in marshes, to some extent.
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It depleted salt marshes that serve as fish habitat and suppressed oxygen levels.
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"Enemy cells were hiding in the marshes and shooting at security forces," Col.
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As detailed in the study published last week in Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, the ancient Arab Marsh (Ma'dan) culture, which has thrived in the Mesopotamian Marshes of Southern Iraq for thousands of years, is disappearing as the marshes are drying up.
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Those who remained saw Saddam Hussein intentionally drain the marshes in the 1990s, partly to facilitate oil discovery and partly in retaliation against those who had led uprisings against his governments (the marshes have long been a refuge for Iraqi dissidents).
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Water lily roots are the only thing people in the marshes have to eat.
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One hundred projects are aimed at restoring marshes, or building new ones, Miller said.
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American alligators normally live in freshwater wetlands and marshes in the Southeastern United States.
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That there are many excursions deep into the marshes of biochemistry and cellular biology.
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Or, it can mean using "living shorelines" of sea marshes, oyster reefs and dunes.
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Oil sheens have been found in the surrounding waters on the beaches and marshes.
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Most cases in Africa are associated with living near marshes and other aquatic environments.
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Salt marshes are often punctuated by little channels, peaceful places to explore by canoe.
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British soldiers drain marshes during WWI at the Salonika front to prevent malaria, 19260.
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Hussein later drained the famed marshes of southern Iraq to punish the rebellious Marsh Arabs.
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Levees stopped the natural flow of fresh water and sediment that reinforced the fragile marshes.
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She had six children starving in the marshes, waiting for her to return with food.
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They originally played Sunday League football on Hackney Marshes, but quickly outgrew their humble origins.
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According to her, even then it was clear that the Mesopotamian marshes were drying up.
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Check the edges of phragmites or cattail marshes or where other favored foods are growing.
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We rolled across the gas flower marshes, gigantic puffs of blue pollen filling the air.
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Over its old fortifications built by Vauban, and over its marshes, wild duck are flying.
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For me it's marshes, the sea: It's the suggestion of it as much as anything.
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Actually, the world needs more swamps – and bogs, fens, marshes and other types of wetlands.
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Peatlands -- which include bogs, marshes and swamps -- store almost a third of land-based carbon.
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In winter, you can find it in swamps, marshes and estuaries along the Mississippi Valley.
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By 2015, marshes had colonised so much of the canal that its waters had stopped flowing.
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Just a few include new or restored levees, pumps, coastal habitats, barrier islands, marshes, and shores.
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Just a few include new or restored levees, pumps, coastal habitats, barrier islands, marshes, and shores.
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Old boats rotting away in the marshes, fly-tipped sofas, industrial plants with no visible workers.
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Politicians have in the past secured extra water for their upstream districts at the marshes' expense.
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The Corps kept on dredging but used the material instead to create artificial marshes, benefiting waterfowl.
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Recently released work shows that salt marshes annually reduce flood damages by at least 22019 percent.
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The experience of paddling through marshes lined with tall grasses and rocky shores is incredibly tranquil.
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Restoring degraded wetlands and marshes can protect cities and coasts from flooding and improve water quality.
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The marshes occupy most of the northwest of the peninsula, which is to say your heel.
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Some marshes were pink or orange, thanks to the proliferation of an algae called Dunaliella salina.
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The area's marshes and lakes shrank in half, industries appeared and the water is now undrinkable.
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The canals provided an easy route for salt water into the area's marshes, breaking up wetlands.
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Today, almost nothing remains of what was very recently a vast expanse of bountiful marshes and swampland.
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Including sand banks, salt marshes and dunes, it stretches from the Netherlands to neighboring Germany and Denmark.
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Field recordings of Swan River water creatures and marshes meld with surprising harmonies and minimalist soul rhythms.
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Footsteps Dickens began his novel in the marshes of the Hoo Peninsula, about 219 miles from London.
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The sparrows traveled with the marshes as the plants shifted along the changing location of the shore.
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Marshes, streams and lakes lie alongside many of the roads and highways that zigzag across North America.
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He thinks he's being watched, remembers talk of the "barbarous and godless" people who inhabit the marshes.
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Since the beginning of the 20th Century, Floridians have dredged up the marshes to create arable farmland.
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"The conservation of this species right now — and not just this species but the whole suite of things that live in salt marshes — centers around where are the places where it's possible for there to be marshes 30 years, 50 years, 80 years from now," Dr. Elphick said.
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They spend their days ingesting large quantities of grass (nice) and hanging out by freshwater streams and marshes.
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After the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraqis tore down many of the canals that had drained the marshes.
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Nearly five million nutria have been removed from the state's swamps and marshes over the past 15 years.
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Then the birds arrived, some settling the wetlands and marshes year round, some stopping by for seasonal replenishment.
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Poe has led fishing tours on Calcasieu Lake and the marshes surrounding the Gulf of Mexico since 1984.
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The flamingos living in the salt marshes also turn pink and orange after they eat the little lobsters.
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But Martians wouldn't be green, since the bacteria are responsible for turning the salt marshes orange and pink.
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Some of it is natural, emitted by soil microbes living in oxygen-poor environments in marshes and wetlands.
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There, salt marshes have been established using sediment from both the Eems-Dollard estuary and port of Delfzijl.
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Depending on their levels of salinization and types of algae, other marshes were green, golden yellow, or brown.
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The area — once home to Anglo-Saxon kings — is quite romantic and also has marshes, woods and heathland.
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Riders will have views of the coastline, marshes and streams along the Downeaster route from Boston to Brunswick, Maine.
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Instead, she and her family are still trying to survive based on what they can scavenge in the marshes.
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The bays, salt marshes, woods and ponds draw the area's oldest migrants: snow geese, oystercatchers, warblers, plovers, egrets, herons.
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The landscape is occasionally punctuated by marshes—mostly dry this time of year—fed by the manmade Hawijah River.
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American alligators normally live in freshwater wetlands and marshes in the Southeastern United States - not in the northern Midwest.
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Rivers, however, are an unusual setting for plant-based water sanitizing, which normally happens in stagnant ponds or marshes.
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But natural infrastructure — marshes, barrier islands, mangrove forests, coral reefs and oyster reefs — can cost-effectively reduce storm damage.
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Many Eastern coastal marshes like Hammonasset already have such ditches, dug in the 1920s and 30s for mosquito control.
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They eat the smooth cord grass that pokes up in the marshes and sea oats that protect the dunes.
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The beach stretches across 10 miles, with a shoreline of dense maritime forests, rolling sand dunes and tidal marshes.
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Its marshes will undoubtedly be impacted by global sea level rises, and have already begun to exacerbate existing flooding issues.
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All of these people had left family members in the marshes, waiting anxiously for them to bring back the food.
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Algae and halobacteria live in the salt marshes, though those are the only microorganisms found in these extremely salty circumstances.
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After I met her, I walked on the military line that was built on the marshes during Saddam Hussein's regime.
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Marine Park, with its 530 acres of grassland and salt marshes near Jamaica Bay, is the largest park in Brooklyn.
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By sucking up particles to eat, they function like natural water filters, making marshes, lakes, and other habitats more livable.
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When the river was straightened and deepened beginning in the early 20th century, its marshes and tidal flats were filled in.
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In recent decades, the city has greatly expanded its boundaries, turning tidal marshes and shorelines into neighborhoods that are increasingly flooding.
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Jon Cluett explained that the family car was miles away and that the journey would have been over marshes and bogs.
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Congdon suspects that capybara could mirror North America's invasive nutria—a semiaquatic rodent that caused extensive damage to marshes and wetlands.
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Twentieth-century development has lowered the water table in the marshes near Azraq, giving scientists better access to deeper sediment layers.
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In the rainy season, lakes and marshes have drenched its more than 1,500 square miles, sustaining deer, flamingos and even leopards.
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Officials checked beaches and marshes along the island's coast by helicopter and did not spot anymore stranded whales, the DNR said.
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It was my first day in the marshes, and I noticed a woman milking her buffalo on one of the islands.
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The onshore infrastructure, pipelines, vessel traffic and pollution that accompanies offshore drilling would devastate our beautiful beaches, healthy marshes and rivers.
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As a growing percentage of the world's population moves to coastal areas, our marshes, swamps, and mangroves are steadily being destroyed.
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Searches in the marshes after Hurricane Rita in 2005 turned up vaults that had been missing since Hurricane Audrey in 1957.
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As the sea rises, hundreds of tidal creeks and marshes that thread through the region are bringing saltwater to people's doorsteps.
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"If the marshes don't receive an adequate share of water, they will vanish," said Nadia al-Baghdady, an activist in Baghdad.
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The metallic calls of red-winged blackbirds can be heard at marshes, shores, grasslands, and roadsides all over the United States.
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Another industrial park, this one set atop government-protected marshes, like an eco-friendly, West Coast version of the Jersey Meadowlands.
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For much of the stage, the route hugged the coastline alongside sparkling waters, pristine beaches and an abundance of salt marshes.
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It's not a pretty place, or a friendly one, so it's a relief when the footpath opens out onto the marshes.
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" The "ague" — malaria — had been one of the chief perils of living here; the marshes, Pip tells Magwitch, are "dreadful aguish.
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Saltmarsh sparrows, which breed in coastal marshes from Maine to Virginia, have always been at the mercy of time and tide.
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The old ghost town of Saline City and its salt marshes were a source of salt production dating back to 1854.
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No attempt is made to control leachate, which swills out into the surrounding creeks and marshes and on into the Arabian Sea.
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Despite the value of marshes in helping to protect against catastrophic flooding, wetlands alone could not have protected Houston from Harvey's devastation.
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Once you say adiós a Miami and hit the Everglades, explore the park's mangrove forests and freshwater marshes by kayak or canoe.
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Santa Fe is one of Argentina's oldest cities, with over 70 percent of its territory made up of rivers, lakes and marshes.
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The Gulf of Mexico, the rivers, lakes, and massive marshes that look more like sea than land, are woven into their identity.
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"The whole situation in the marshes is completely different from what I saw before, in the '70s and early '80s," Fawzi said.
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Such ecosystems, which include sea grasses, mangrove forests and salt marshes, capture carbon emmissions that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere.
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Now and then he leaned back and smacked the ball, sending it bouncing toward Avenue U and the Marine Park salt marshes.
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He looked out the window of the bus as it crossed the marshes along the Hackensack River on the New Jersey Turnpike.
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This creates critical incentives for restoring and conserving marshes, mangroves, coral reefs and other coastal habitats by individuals, towns, cities and states.
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We entered the area known as Salinas La Brita, or Las Salinas to locals, known for its vast salt pans and marshes.
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She ditches her whalebone corset for an oversize coat to go fossil-hunting in the Blackwater marshes of Essex with her son.
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Increasingly common in New York City's waterfront parks, such engineered marshes — Ms. Nielsen's "boutique wetlands" — help improve water quality and create habitats.
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Primarily a summer community, it is part of the Cape Cod National Seashore, which encompasses 2206 miles of beaches, marshes and ponds.
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Immediately to the north, his ever-expanding Facebook campus looms, a shining city alongside the salt marshes of the San Francisco Bay.
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Fawzi cites restoration practices being used in Iraq's first national park—Mesopotamia Marshlands—as a potential template for other regions in the marshes.
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And waterfowl in the Macquarie Marshes, a wildlife haven in northwest New South Wales, have been affected by a fire in their habitat.
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The weather was golden, and Cusk had gone for a long walk by herself on a path that runs through the salt marshes.
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The site, in an Aboriginal area, contains volcanoes, swamps, and marshes, and is "The network of waterways can be used to trap eels, "
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Added to that are the many ponds, inlets and salt marshes, and a downtown waterfall that offers a picturesque backdrop for City Hall.
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During the spring spawning season, tens of thousands of adult carp migrate miles through lakes and streams to marshes where they were born.
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Salt marshes prevented more than $2000 million in direct flood damages during Superstorm Sandy in 236, according to a 113 study in Nature.
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He's referring to Louisiana's $50 billion master plan for preserving the coast, which includes creating marshes, flood-proofing buildings, and restoring shoreline ridges.
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An 18-foot storm surge swept away houses, and a record tidal surge crushed homes or swept them into nearby marshes, he said.
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The construction could affect marshes in the Meadowlands in New Jersey and bird and fish populations in the area, among other environmental concerns.
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The animal can survive in a variety of environments from mountains to deserts to marshes — and seemingly, plane cabins — with little food or oxygen.
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The UN found that the marshes were back up to around 58 percent of their historic levels, and native birds and fish were rebounding.
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A weakened flow into the Tigris and Euphrates rivers means that salt water from the Persian Gulf can now seep upstream into the marshes.
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For decades dams built in Syria, Turkey and Iran have swallowed up the waters of the Tigris, Euphrates and other rivers feeding the marshes.
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Electric eels like to burrow down deep into the slime of marshes and shallow waters, making them difficult to catch using typical fishing techniques.
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It's said that lizard-lions can grow to the size of actual lions and will viciously attacking unwary men who wander through the marshes.
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One was The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger (published in 1964), and another was Return to the Marshes by Gavin Young (published in 1977).
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With these marshes gone, the Levee Authority said in the suit, storms were allowed to move inland unimpeded, causing extensive damage to the landscape.
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Scirocco winds blowing from the south east can drive water into the lagoon, much of which is made up of marshes and mud flats.
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The oil spill slicked hundreds of miles of marshes and wetlands from Texas to Florida just as nesting season began for millions of birds.
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A three-part public sculpture in the Marshes of Glynn in Georgia, "Marsh Ruins" is, like Smithson's "Spiral Jetty," a marvel of engineered obsolescence.
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Scrambling to land in a swampy district of Bangladesh on June 28, the elephant trudged through the marshes in search of food, becoming dehydrated.
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His territory is definitely East London, specifically the parks, commons, and marshes of Hackney, where he's lived for 32 years, since he was seven.
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On the gulf's eastern shores, developers dredged and filled marshes and estuaries in order to sell a slice of spoiled paradise to Northern transplants.
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On the Gulf Coast, insurance industry-based models show that every $1 spent on restoring marshes and oyster reefs reduces storm damages by $7.
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Read on one level, these poems are sensualist still lifes: Often set in and around the woods, marshes and tide pools of Provincetown, Mass.
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And as the surges grow, development along the coast has largely eliminated the natural barriers that once weakened storm surges — things like marshes and dunes.
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The Atlantic killifish is found in tidal marshes along the East Coast of the United States, many of which have been polluted with industrial chemicals.
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The Mississippi River has been strangled with so many dams and levees that it doesn't deliver the soil that's needed to rebuild the island's marshes.
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Once upon a time, the Mississippi River drained through these marshes, leaving its sediment in the delta — which replenished the land lost to the waves.
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He says that in the marshes affected by the oil spill, it's fairly common to spot plastic poles stuck 10 feet in the open water.
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After eating, I stepped out of the house and discovered that all of the buffalo had left to make their daily journey through the marshes.
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A century before Freek built his mill, Dutch colonists forced African-born slaves to turn the Gowanus marshes into farmland and dig the first millponds.
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Leaving the trail, we descended to verdant farmlands along the Gulf of Kalloni and stopped to photograph a flamboyance of pale flamingoes in seaside marshes.
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The cargo ship will likely have to be disassembled to be removed, but in the meantime, it has been leaking oil into the surrounding marshes.
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However, a month since its overturning, the cargo ship still hasn't been removed and has since started leaking oil into the surrounding marshes, NPR reported.
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"You used to hear women singing as they pushed their boats through the marshes at dawn," said Taher Mehsin, a fishermen in his late 60s.
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Though many were eager to return home after two decades away, life in the marshes is tough and revolves around fishing and raising water buffalo.
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A guest suite opens through a window in a slanted wall to the "ramparts," a balcony with a stone surround overlooking marshes, Mr. Lochrane said.
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But mangrove forests and marshes around the world are increasingly vanishing to make way for cash crops like palm oil, according to the new study.
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On my last day, I drive out to Yankeetown, to visit the salt marshes that ignited Jack Putz's interest in the Big Bend decades earlier.
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Standing on the observation post, looking at the miles of flat, shallow marshes, I can't help but think how little stands between Yankeetown and disaster.
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He asked her directly if she'd send a similar letter about the rule that determines which lakes, rivers, streams and marshes fall under federal jurisdiction.
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