Some researchers have termed trees as crypto-wetlands or vertical wetlands.
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His no net loss of wetlands policy dramatically slowed the loss of wetlands threatening our nation's economy and national security.
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Documenting vanishing wetlands: On a Wing and a Prayer On a Wing and a Prayer captures how Louisiana's wetlands are disappearing.
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World Wetlands Day is marked each year on February 2, celebrating the signing of The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, in 1971.
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Today, states will find protecting wetlands very challenging because state budgets are very limited, and only 85033 states have some sort of wetlands protection program.
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The agencies also determined that many wetlands adjacent to those rivers and streams, as well as wetlands next to their headwaters, deserved federal protection as well.
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The most important international treaty for the protection of wetlands is the Ramsar Convention, which does not include provisions to conserve wetlands as a climate change strategy.
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Even the Montezuma Wetlands project — which, elegantly, tops up subsided lowlands with dredged sediment, to regenerate the kind of wetlands which originally existed — attracted enormous hostility and resistance.
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By comparing the diet record of adult feathers against this information, researchers hope to map which wetlands the birds have been using, and how healthy those wetlands are.
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In response, Bartleson, along with other scientists, have advocated for the use of the state's wetlands to redirect the surface runoff , as the wetlands act as a natural filter.
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Rapanos hired a respected wetlands expert who delivered a detailed map and report showing that fifty acres were, in fact, wetlands that could not be developed without a permit.
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Part of the wetlands are off limits to large-scale development, including the Mai Po Nature Reserve, which is protected under the Ramsar Convention, an international treaty for the conservation of wetlands.
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Now, the region once filled with wetlands is a desert.
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Upstream wetlands once slowed the release of rainwater to rivers.
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Worse, this would be happening as the wetlands get bigger.
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Wetlands, rain forests and coral reefs all come to life.
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The parcel is small, but it's home to crucial wetlands.
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Common sources of methane emissions include wetlands and livestock operations.
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But the role of trees outside wetlands cannot be discounted.
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Copperheads prefer terrestrial areas while Cottonmouths tend to like wetlands.
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The loss of habitats, especially wetlands, devastated fisheries and wildlife.
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The information could help prioritize wetlands for protection and management.
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The Wetlands Park is not the only locale in play.
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Culverts were torn up and creeks and wetlands were restored.
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The Trump administration removed pollution controls for streams and wetlands.
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Green construction, park systems and protected wetlands can absorb water.
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Houses continue to spring from the wetlands of the Everglades.
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Vital services Wetlands purify drinking water by filtering out pollutants.
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"It's about getting people to love their wetlands," he says.
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They disperse to backyards, beaches and wetlands across the planet.
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Preventing federal officials from protecting sensitive wetlands on the refuge.
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Woodberry Wetlands in London is where the grassy images were taken.
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The Wetlands was created by Thames Water and London Wildlife Trust.
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The state cleared the way to dump waste runoff into wetlands.
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Often, this occurs in flooded environments such as wetlands and sediments.
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Wetlands and parks can soak up storm runoff and excessive rain.
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Then came the oil industry, which dug canals through the wetlands.
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Khuzestan is home to two major wetlands: Hawrul Azim and Shadegan.
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The wetlands seemed the perfect spot for their dream vacation home.
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Two hundred years ago, the area was made up of wetlands.
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But wetlands have received little attention from climate scientists and policymakers.
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The leak affected 22,500 square feet of land, including some wetlands.
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Amazon will also invest $100 million to restore forests and wetlands.
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But wetlands and reefs are only a first line of defense.
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A century ago, West Ashley was mostly wetlands and phosphate mines.
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Amazon will also invest $100 million to restore forests and wetlands.
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In addition, the E.P.A. proposes to slash federal protection for wetlands adjacent to the tributary system, reasoning without any scientific basis that only wetlands that directly abut or have a surface connection to tributaries deserve protection.
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Cambodia is extremely dependent on its lakes and wetlands, with nearly half the population working on its seasonally inundated land, and relying on the rice and fish it provides, says conservation group Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT).
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But it's not clear if the wetlands will survive in the future.
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Don't put houses on top of the wetlands that absorb those storms.
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The wall could also damage fish hatcheries, wildlife refuges, and protected wetlands.
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We bring students out where they can explore wetlands and tide pools.
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Or restoring certain wetlands that have an immense capacity to hold carbon.
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Finally, fishermen depend on wetlands to harvest oysters, shrimp, crabs, and fish.
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But others are concerned the storm damaged fragile parts of the wetlands.
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You could start to go after the agriculture sources, landfills, the wetlands.
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Implement land-use strategies to retain water, like natural areas and wetlands.
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ANSONIA Spring Break Nature Days: Visit the park's wetlands, fields and woodlands.
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Fires Are Ravaging Brazil's Pantanal, the World's Largest Tropical Wetlands, Time reports.
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But the parcel, known as Ackerson Meadow, is home to crucial wetlands.
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The Pantanal region, the world's largest tropical wetlands, is starting to wither.
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There are more than 2,000 species of them, found mainly in wetlands.
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Also exempt are most wetlands separated from other larger bodies of water.
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The village's wetlands and pristine springs drew throngs of holidaymakers every year.
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Today many modern cities around the world are built on filled wetlands.
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In addition, draining or disturbing wetlands can release soil carbon very rapidly.
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Other types, such as new saltwater wetlands, can rapidly start accumulating carbon.
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Mining is impacting wetlands from the Mekong Delta to Alaska, says Darwall.
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The world's forests, wetlands, prairies, and mangroves provide many services to humanity.
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Tropical wetlands produce around a fifth to a quarter of global methane emissions, and those emissions respond quickly to changes in temperature and precipitation - for example, as wetlands expand by the end of the rainy season, the study noted.
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The importance of these unique, and apparently hostile, wetlands is clear to see.
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Wetlands also clean water, removing pollutants that leach into rivers and contaminate wells.
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George H.W. Bush's administration declared a goal of "no net loss" of wetlands.
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These canals allow saltwater to penetrate into the wetlands and kill freshwater vegetation.
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The USDA estimates that more than 85% of Louisiana wetlands is privately owned.
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Suppose you want a Clean Water Act wetlands permit to build a subdivision?
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According to the researchers, increased emissions are instead coming from wetlands and agriculture.
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Scientists and locals all agree the fragile wetlands are an extremely complicated ecosystem.
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He runs a foundation to save the southern wetlands, and seems pretty soulful.
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Between 1950 and 20183, more than half of the country's coastal wetlands vanished.
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Coastal wetlands reduced property damages by as much as 30 percent in Maryland.
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That's not consistent with the benefits that wetlands, mangroves, and reefs can provide.
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"More development creates more impervious surfaces and destroys floodplains and wetlands," he added.
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Industrial waste streams into increasingly dry rivers and wetlands, even in residential areas.
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It would also make it easier for developers to pave over such wetlands.
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The precipitation makes wetlands more acidic, which can be lethal for some fish.
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Private philanthropy, especially by Ducks Unlimited, generated significant financial support for wetlands acquisitions.
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Annually, wetlands reduce flood damages by more than 15 percent across the Northeast.
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Appropriate zoning policies and standards for the preservation of wetlands should be developed.
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And waterfowl may be increasing in numbers due to the conservation of wetlands.
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Earlier this month, fires tore through Brazil's wetlands, destroying 50,000 hectares of vegetation.
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Even relatively degraded wetlands in highly urban areas like New York City provided hundreds of millions of dollars in flood protection during Hurricane Sandy: wetlands prevented $140 million in flood damages in New York and $425 million in New Jersey.
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While this covers forested wetlands and mangroves, it was not until 2016 that a voluntary provision for reporting emissions from wetlands was introduced into the U.N. climate accounting system, and only a small number of governments have taken advantage of it.
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These wetlands are active — albeit slow-moving — waterways with native animal and plant life.
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The world will lose more than 155,1.53 square miles of coastal wetlands and drylands.
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Uys now runs the Community Wetlands Forum, a nexus for bog-loving Irish people.
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Protection of many wetlands, in turn, depends on their being close to protected streams.
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The agency claims not to know how many streams and wetlands will be affected.
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Protecting wetlands has been a relatively bipartisan endeavour, at least at the federal level.
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The ranch has 3,800 acres of desert, wetlands, and natural springs, including a geyser.
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Contaminants leaked from an adjacent facility have already harmed the surrounding wetlands, activists say.
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"We need big, engineered wetlands," Zack Jud of the Florida Oceanographic Society told me.
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We worked with President George W. Bush to protect millions of acres of wetlands.
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American alligators normally live in freshwater wetlands and marshes in the Southeastern United States.
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Healthy rivers, wetlands and floodplains are natural infrastructure, vital to our safety and economy.
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These wetlands have been replaced with impervious surfaces, such as parking lots and roadways.
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When tar-sands oil leaches into wetlands, they're just about impossible to restore entirely.
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Tangier's sea grass (known as subaqueous vegetation beds) and wetlands have significant ecological worth.
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So why are we even entertaining the idea of damaging an internationally recognised wetlands?
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Wetlands and natural systems make our cities and towns more resilient to extreme storms.
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Since the property had loads of springs, he planted poplars, which thrive in wetlands.
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JULY 18, 2017 —Just who gets to regulate America's many seasonal streams and wetlands?
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Wetlands projects that mitigate air quality threats and create bird habitat are already planned.
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The guys were due to play their first gig in New York at Wetlands.
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EPA has also asserted it can regulate wetlands that are adjacent to navigable waters.
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That changed as new technology made it possible to turn wetlands into soybean fields.
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"For wetlands, this is an absolute disaster, compared to the Obama plan," he said.
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By monitoring the sounds of frogs at wetlands, scientists can better understand our ecosystem.
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Other environmentalists warn that the vital wetlands used by migratory birds will be destroyed.
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His administration also spent billions cleaning waterways and wetlands, creating parks, and planting trees.
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A wetlands buffer of shrubs and grasses now protects the water from runoff. Mrs.
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It was perfectly situated between the fields, desert, mountains, wetlands and the Pacific Ocean.
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Mangroves and wetlands store fives times as much carbon per acre as tropical forests.
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We are beginning to recognize reefs and wetlands for their benefits as natural infrastructure.
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Creating more wetlands that can naturally purify runoff and floodwaters from agriculture is essential, and the state can look to the success of reduced water pollution from sugarcane by restoring wetlands for the Everglades Construction Project (ECP) to the south of the lake.
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The wetland protection policies put in place decades ago by the first President Bush, an avid fisherman, followed on his own campaign pledge to save wetlands, saying, "all wetlands, no matter how small, should be preserved," and proposing a "no net loss" policy.
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He cites concerns over the impact of continued use of these aquifers on local wetlands.
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But 50 birds that represented species with dwindling populations never left the wetlands at all.
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The rule gives protection to 60 percent of the US's bodies of water, including wetlands.
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Louisiana loses about 20 square miles of wetlands to the Gulf of Mexico every year.
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Another part of the GBA plan is to protect wetlands, forests, coastlines and marine ecosystems.
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It has encountered stiff resistance from local environmentalists, who fear it would threaten protected wetlands.
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The abundant berries, insects, and wetlands in the refuge attract around 22011 regular bird residents.
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Wetlands are the largest single source, contributing about 30 percent of total methane emissions globally.
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"Wetlands is the ultimate potential carbon-climate feedback that we don't fully understand," says Canadell.
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It is rising amid protected wetlands and faces charges of cronyism in awarding construction contracts.
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Don Ashley, a consultant in Louisiana, says the trade encourages landowners to protect precious wetlands.
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This time, it released 383,040 gallons of oil into the northeastern wetlands of North Dakota.
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It also gets some water from a sewerage works that releases water into its wetlands.
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Wetlands have been hit hardest, with 87 percent lost globally in the last 300 years.
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Point South, the city has planted more than an acre of wetlands modeled on the
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But apparently it was just a passing reference to easing the regulations on inland wetlands.
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This time, another goose has been taken in by the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center.
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On top of that, pollutants from agriculture are degrading the wetlands where the crane breeds.
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"Being resilient means more than having levees and wetlands to hold back water," he said.
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In Europe and Central Asia, wetlands have declined by half since 1970, threatening many species.
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Prolonged droughts have affected tree-fruiting in the wetlands, he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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In the last 6003 years, about half the country's wetlands have disappeared, according to WWT.
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Wetlands were being drained, mangrove jungles cleared and swamps filled to build roads and homes.
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It would also exclude wetlands that are not directly connected to larger bodies of water.
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For the first time, the agencies imposed distance limitations on what wetlands would receive protection.
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They're so large, that just moving their bodies around can change the structure of wetlands.
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Coasts saw the least amount of decline, while wetlands actually increased by nearly 20 percent.
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Actually, the world needs more swamps – and bogs, fens, marshes and other types of wetlands.
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For centuries human societies have viewed wetlands as wastelands to be "reclaimed" for higher uses.
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Vast stores of carbon have accumulated in wetlands, in some cases over thousands of years.
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Freshwater wetlands provide water during droughts and help cool surrounding areas when temperatures are elevated.
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Coastal wetlands can even grow in height as sea level rises, protecting communities further inland.
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The commission adopted strict protections for wetlands and a four-story height limit for buildings.
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Adam Putnam is CEO of Ducks Unlimited, which focuses on conservation of wetlands and waterfowl.
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As a result, vast areas of the world's wetlands are being converted to other uses.
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Protecting our wetlands But there are signs that, with enough support, things can get better.
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For example, coastal wetlands prevented more than $625 million in property damages during Hurricane Sandy.
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Nearby residents objected, saying that turning more wetlands into homes would worsen their flood problem.
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The loss of wetlands will harm water quality, while removing our best defense against flooding.
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They need to preserve and restore their first line of defense -- wetlands and coral reefs.
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It has been temporarily expanding wetlands for migratory birds in California's Sacramento Valley since 2014.
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The Obama administration sought to expand the reach of the Clean Water Act over ponds, streams, wetlands and ditches that feed into larger bodies of water in order to preserve swaths of wetlands crucial for providing habitat for animals and protecting drink-water supplies.
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"If you want coastal wetlands to continue to sequester carbon, then it's important to protect them."
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The Mills' proposal, however, was to build over an area of wetlands in Carlstadt, New Jersey.
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Fire ants are native to the wetlands of Brazil, so they're accustomed to torrential rainy seasons.
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As the cost of losing wetlands is better understood, the case for protecting them should strengthen.
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The result is a landscape of plains, wetlands and forest roamed by thousands of hoofed mammals.
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The main thrust of the article, that wetlands can help reduce nitrate pollution, is certainly right.
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Methane from wetlands or livestock tends to be lower in carbon-13 than that from pipelines.
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Image: Rob Stothard/Getty ImagesThis is the Woodberry Wetlands in the Borough of Hackney in London.
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And they recommend the cultivation of plants that are known to conserve wetlands, such as bamboo.
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Today as he glides over the wetlands around Houma, he sees dead trees submerged in saltwater.
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The Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve is comprised of over two-million hectares of rainforest and wetlands.
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The balance comes from natural sources—wetlands, rivers and lakes, wildfires, termites, geological seeps, thawing permafrost.
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And scientists still know very little about the various isotopic signatures of microbial methane from wetlands.
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He was dealing, too, with many struggling, suspicious locals who earned their living from the wetlands.
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Hurricane Harvey showcased bad urban planning -- cheap housing built on swamps and wetlands -- and partisan politics.
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Without it, more wetlands and beachfront property would likely be developed into strip malls and condos.
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Construction of the road has already begun, and a lot of the wetlands are already flattened.
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Whether it's sea life, wetlands, or forests, we've been involved in the transformation of many landscapes.
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And lots of that is from "area emissions," vast sources like wetlands or grazing cattle flatulence.
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Rockeman told the AP that some wetlands were affected, but not any sources of drinking water.
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His environmental experience includes wetlands mapping, terrain assessments, forest stand analysis, coastal ecology and marine robotics.
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We wandered into the Giacomini Wetlands, the newly restored sweep of marshland south of Tomales Bay.
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The proposed rollback would also strip protection for half of the U.S. wetlands, Goldman-Carter said.
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Oil and gas exploration has hastened the erosion of the wetlands that once protected the region.
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Ironically, Nanhui's famous "sponge city" is an attempt at mimicking the functions that wetlands perform worldwide.
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Kolkata's wetlands provide a natural defense against flooding, but many are clogged or being built over.
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At Gateway National Recreation Area, the NPS is restoring wetlands at Jamaica Bay in New York.
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The findings were sobering: Millions of acres of wetlands and rain forests are being cleared away.
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The former is mainly about agriculture (cow burps, pig poop, rotting organic waste) and tropical wetlands.
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The replanting, restoration and conservation of disappearing coastal wetlands, sand dunes and oyster reefs is crucial.
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"Wetlands … absorb floodwaters by acting as a natural sponge," explains Kate Brogan of NOAA's Fisheries Department.
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I move my mind's eyes to the wetlands, the mountains, the coral reefs, the golden prairies.
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Our planet's rapidly disappearing forests, wetlands and grasslands need to be preserved and restored wherever possible.
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For him, the biggest surprise was uncovering vast areas of wetlands filled with channels and canals.
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Restoring degraded wetlands and marshes can protect cities and coasts from flooding and improve water quality.
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You might meet other interesting women in your life, but good luck replacing North America's wetlands!
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Millions of additional acres of wetlands were restored and protected by the federal and state governments.
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His environmental experience includes wetlands mapping, terrain assessments, forest stand analysis, coastal ecology, and marine robotics.
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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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"We've put a lot of money into trails and wetlands and protection of species," she said.
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The new rule lifts federal protections for roughly half of the country's wetlands, according to the agency's own internal estimates Environmental groups say this would surely accelerate the trend of lost wetlands at a time when the changing climate makes their benefits all the more important.
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The draft bill allows Foxconn to discharge dredged or fill material into some wetlands without state permits.
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The 2015 regulation expands U.S. authority over major bodies of water to include wetlands, rivers and streams.
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Environmental damage in the form of poor soil, neglected wetlands or degraded vegetation can exacerbate the problem.
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A new federal loan program to help communities build resilience, including "natural infrastructure solutions" like restored wetlands.
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Golfers will enjoy the Celebration Golf Club, an 18-hole championship course that goes through natural wetlands.
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Both it and the delta were part of a lake, the largest in Africa, surrounded by wetlands.
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In the surrounding bushland and wetlands, you'll also find 20 native mammal species and 11 amphibian species.
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An additional $4 million will be used to demolish the old neighborhood and restore it to wetlands.
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Louisiana contains some of the world's most extensive wetlands, home to a fifth of North America's waterfowl.
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Waters from the Congaree and Wateree Rivers sweep through a floodplain, creating wetlands, oxbow lakes and sloughs.
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Methane production from wetlands, however, can change rapidly from year to year, in response to meteorological shifts.
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In 1971, at Ramsar in Iran, he oversaw the signing of the first global treaty protecting wetlands.
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In winter it is blanketed in snow; in summer, its forests are lush and its wetlands soggy.
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But the biggest differences come in the definitions of wetlands and tributaries, he told reporters on Monday.
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The kitchen and the dining room open to a large flagstone-floored sunroom facing woods and wetlands.
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Cleaning up the wetlands could involved digging them up to get at the bitumen that's sunk in.
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Restoring wetlands, mangroves and green space is also a cost-effective way to reduce climate-related damage.
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Last year, a design-forward renovation of the rural home created nine guest rooms overlooking the wetlands.
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The subaqueous vegetation beds are where blue crabs reach maturity, and migrating birds rest on the wetlands.
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"The only way to keep that from happening again is if we rebuild our wetlands," he said.
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And in 2008, the EPA vetoed the pumps, because of fears it would threaten wetlands and wildlife.
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And the murky waters of wetlands prevent people from spotting dangerous predators like alligators before they strike.
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He also introduced legislation focused on voluntary farm and ranch conservation practices, massive reforestation, and wetlands restoration.
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The US loses 22018,22013 acres of coastal wetlands each year, largely to development, drainage, erosion, and pollution.
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The slope leaves room for wetlands to form and to retreat uphill as the sea level rises.
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Wetlands play key roles in filtering surface water and protecting against floods, while also providing wildlife habitat.
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Wetlands, bogs, and swamps also release methane to the atmosphere as part of a natural carbon cycle.
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"Southwest Florida has lost nearly half its wetlands," said Eric Draper, the executive director of Audubon Florida.
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The wetlands are inundated by the East River twice a day through a culvert on the property.
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There have even been blazes in wetlands and rainforests that have not contended with this threat before.
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Clogged with toxic waste, Savar's wetlands, canals and streets have become breeding grounds for mosquitoes and disease.
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Coastal wetlands — which she called "natural infrastructure" — have disappeared quickly under the pressures of development and agriculture.
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When land is flooded, contaminated water eventually flows back across the seabed, into wetlands and over reefs.
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The levees altered the natural flow of river sediment, and Louisiana's southeastern wetlands gradually began to sink.
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"Kenya's wetlands are very fragile, hence when the land is under pressure they suffer the most," he said.
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As the authors write in the study:Approximately half of the central Lowlands are seasonal wetlands known as bajos.
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He consistently voted in favor of property rights over protection of endangered species, wetlands and other natural resources.
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The parish has a lot of wetlands, Grimaldi said, so alligator encounters are not out of the ordinary.
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The bacteria that cause Buruli ulcer are from the environment and usually associated with wetlands and stagnant water.
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Doing so will protect neighboring communities from future floods, because the restored wetlands will act as a sponge.
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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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What's more, it tracks changes in features like rivers, lakes, and wetlands over the course of 30 years.
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If you drove through the Hamoun Wetlands of southeastern Iran centuries ago, you would have found an oasis.
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Fairy-wrens are endemic to the wetlands of northern Australia, and tend to nest close to the ground.
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The rule asserted federal power over small waterways such as streams and wetlands to protect them from pollution.
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Microbes in wetlands might be producing more methane in response to increased precipitation, or warmer temperatures, or both.
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Wetlands, mangroves, ponds and coral reefs are being restored to protect the village from future floods and storms.
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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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To map the distribution of wetlands, researchers have relied on old aeronautical charts of questionable accuracy, says Bruhwiler.
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Rising seas cause saline intrusion: seawater moving into places unaccustomed to it, such as wetlands and freshwater aquifers.
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Each year, we restore thousands of acres into hardy and productive rangeland, wildlife habitat, hardwood forests and wetlands.
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Both it and the delta were part of a lake, then the largest in Africa, surrounded by wetlands.
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In this case, the Beeliar Wetlands have been used by the Noongar people for more than 28,28 years.
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Wetlands in Staten Island, Queens and southern Brooklyn are likely places to search for this gentle urban mammal.
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Wetlands continue to be destroyed in southeast Asia and the Congo region, mainly to plant oil palm trees.
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In 2008, the EPA officially vetoed construction of the Yazoo Pumps, saying it would threaten wetlands and wildlife.
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Developing countries will also need to improve water conservation and flood management, restore wetlands and strengthen building codes.
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Did your mayor greenlight major development in a floodplain and destroy wetlands that could have absorbed flood waters?
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The entire area, once marshy wetlands, holds roughly $100 billion in oil refineries, chemical plants and other infrastructure.
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Between its vibrant jungles, wetlands, savannahs, and deserts, the country is arguably the ecological gem of South America.
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Other parts of the land have been turned into parks and common areas featuring grassland, woodlands and wetlands.
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Atrociraptor mashalli, in contrast, was a wetlands creature that foraged in the forested swamps of Cretaceous era Alberta.
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They've also advocated for the full-scale retreat from wetlands that will one day be reclaimed by nature.
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EPA will no longer regulate wetlands unless they are "physically and meaningfully connected" to waters under EPA jurisdiction.
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Soil is also needed to create new coastal wetlands that can help buffer the impact of future storms.
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"This native beauty grows in wetlands and has the most exuberant flower of any native plant," he said.
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Since 1971, 65 Australian wetlands have been designated as significant under the Ramsar Convention, an international conservation treaty.
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The caribou are genetically and ecologically really important because they're indicators of the health of forests and wetlands.
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Signs advise visitors to avoid stepping into abundant wetlands, into which, guides say, people would quickly sink halfway.
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Around 500 of those make the long journey south from Tibet to Phobjikha's high-altitude wetlands each November.
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The total size of the wetlands area is about 4,350 acres, equivalent to five of Manhattan's Central Park.
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Consider a trip to the Pantanal, the largest wetlands in the world, in Mato Grosso do Sul state.
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Trump's rule will maintain those protections for big bodies of water, but it excludes smaller streams and wetlands.
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While some national and subnational governments effectively protect wetlands, few do this within the context of climate change.
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That list grew on Thursday, when the administration stripped clean-water protections from wetlands, streams and other waterways.
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In February, spring peepers made my ears ring as I walked through wetlands east of Nashville's honky-tonks.
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The regulation aimed to clarify which wetlands and streams were to be given automatic protection under the law.
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Something to do with the great migrations above the Hindu Kush, the desertification of Iranian wetlands, mass extinction.
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The slums are built on swamps and wetlands, so 70 percent of homes are prone to heavy floods.
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During the 93th century, Iraq's lush wetlands between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers had mostly dried up because of a series of dams that had been constructed for electricity, as well as a deliberate strategy by Saddam Hussein to drain the wetlands and punish the region's Marsh Arabs for rebelling.
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This proposal for new parks and wetlands in lower Manhattan, to help absorb rising tides, is one such design.
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Cities may benefit more from saving wetlands, forests and other forms of "green infrastructure" than building big new dams.
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The systems control water coming into and out of urban lakes, retention ponds, tanks, pipes, cisterns, even constructed wetlands.
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The Wetlands International study found that 32,000 families, including 2,300 fishing households, depended on the lake for their income.
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But without strict federal rules, "I doubt all states would protect wetlands as they do now," says Mr Ward.
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"The extent that these wetlands can hold together is the extent that we get water quality protection," Troxler said.
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The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) shared the news about the birds from WWT Slimbridge in a Thursday press release .
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Porous concrete, manmade wetlands and green spaces capture and reuse water that previously would have vanished down the drain.
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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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The program was also used to help restore some residential areas in New York to wetlands following Hurricane Sandy.
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As a result, nearby wetlands drain into the river, damaging their ability to act as sponges during a flood.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that the United States has lost over half of its wetlands already.
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Plum Island's natural assets are unmatched, from stunning beaches to freshwater wetlands; it sustains 111 rare and endangered species.
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In some states, that means more than 70 percent of wetlands would lose their safeguards, according to the BBC.
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Restoring these coastal wetlands is imperative to protect Louisiana's coast from further decline due to manmade and natural causes.
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WARWICK, R.I. – T.F. Green Airport is receiving a federal grant to improve runways and protect wetlands near the facility.
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Since then, lots have been developed, wetlands have been drained and hurricanes have cleared out debris that blocked waterways.
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While momentum for wetlands protection is growing in China, this mandate has not yet reached the Nanhui Dongtan mudflats.
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One prominent local NGO has urged that at least 1000 hectares of wetlands at Nanhui Dongtan receive full protection.
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The magnitude of the benefits was surprising given how many coastal wetlands already have been lost throughout the region.
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Another half-hour down the road you can do the Corroborree Billabong Wetlands Cruise, which offers good bird sightings.
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We are working to use the river to put sediment back into the starving wetlands that desperately need it.
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Booker also urges massive restoration of forests and coastal wetlands as carbon sponges and as buffers against rising seas.
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Watch in wonder as Gapeth (which rhymes with Wraith) entices Penisfinder into Skullfuck Town, the Wetlands, and the Pit.
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But more and more, the drying of Khuzestan's major wetlands and rivers is one source behind worsening dust storms.
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" Read more " The park covers more than 7,000 square miles of cloud forests, lowland jungle, streams, rivers and wetlands.
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The three-sided, 200-square-foot porch, complete with a fireplace, looks out over the wetlands to the bay.
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But after having killed half the wetlands in our country, we should not want to drain any more swamps.
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The environmental consequences of remodeling the coastline — an altered ecology, wetlands rubbed off the map — can be waved away.
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Fire ants are native to South America and adapted to surviving in flood plains in the wetlands of Brazil.
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Consisting mostly of apartment buildings, villages, wetlands and empty fields, it has primarily been known for its donkey burgers.
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This rule protects nearly 85033 million acres of national forests and wetlands from road-building and new logging activities.
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It now plans to "proactively promote" nature-based solutions such as reforestation and the expansion of grasslands and wetlands.
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Yellow warblers prefer the low, shrubby trees and messy, fourth-generation wetlands so common in New York City's parklands.
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When developers fill in wetlands, local communities will be on the hook for cleaning up more frequent flood damage.
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The United States and Canada responded with laws to protect wetlands and collaborated with Mexico to safeguard migrating waterfowl.
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In the new directive, Pruitt states he will make final critical decisions about preservation of streams, ponds and wetlands.
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Or tiger snake out of the wetlands, whip-cracked by the whip of itself until its back is broke.
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He issued several secretarial orders to increase opportunities to hunt on public lands and designate more wetlands for conservation.
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The rule protects small streams and wetlands, which contribute to the drinking water supply of one in three Americans.
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The ecosystem was regenerated and the [Hula Valley wetlands] were re-flooded, and the frog reappeared after 50 years.
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The housing development, they say, infringes on protected wetlands, though state officials say they have found no evidence of that.
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The wetlands around them are drying up as well, turning from a potential firebreak to a new source of fuel.
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Beatty said they were able to discover evidence of goldfish undergoing migration into nearby wetlands, where they are reproducing — a.k.a.
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Wetlands will be created to protect the community from storm surges, while preserving the region's biodiversity and protecting vulnerable fisheries.
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The planet is warming not only because of fossil fuels, but also because soil, forests and wetlands are being ravaged.
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Natural solutions like reforestation will absorb carbon pollution and restoring coastal wetlands will reduce the impact of storms and flooding.
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Marine animal populations are still struggling to recover, as are coastal wetlands, beaches, and other habitats polluted by the spill.
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Only 9 percent of Uganda's surface area is covered by wetlands now, down from 13 percent in 1995, he noted.
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It is backed by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, Wetlands International and the European Space Agency among other organizations.
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The spill occurred during drilling under the Tuscarawas River in Stark County, Ohio, and covered about 6.5 acres of wetlands.
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Even as suspicions shift away from fossil fuels, they are coalescing around tropical wetlands, the biggest global source of methane.
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"Severe infestations also restrict flows in wetlands and natural waterways, adversely affecting biodiversity and impacting on recreational activities" she said.
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Their enemy, now, has no brain and a billion arms and can send spores rooting in wetlands of their bodies.
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Visitors can experience the Wonders of the Wetlands habitat, which has a bald eagle and fascinating plant and animal species.
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Also, EPA had previously found that the rules governing wetlands before the Clean Water Rule were inadequate, contradictory, and confusing.
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It safeguards millions of acres of wetlands that filter pollutants, protect communities by absorbing floodwaters and provide habitat for wildlife.
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The elephant retreated to the river and was carried far downstream, eventually crossing the frontier into the wetlands of Bangladesh.
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Environmental groups sued the Trump administration on Wednesday challenging moves they say weaken protections for rivers, wetlands and other waterways.
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The rule would provide certainty to landowners and important safeguards for our nation's wetlands, streams, and fish and wildlife habitat.
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This is an opinion piece by Crystal Zhang, an environmentalist whose work is focused on the protection of China's wetlands.
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Policies like this encourage farms to expand, even if it means encroaching on wetlands and buffer zones that protect streams.
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These are the wetlands and reefs that serve as barriers, buffers and breakwaters from rising seas, swell and storm surge.
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And it is not just wetlands — coral reefs are likely to prove to be our greatest natural defense of all.
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New buildings and roads require it and urban land is often expanded by pouring sand into wetlands or rice paddies.
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Kate Brandis, an Australian researcher, has enlisted the public to help her track elusive waterfowl as the country's wetlands disappear.
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In Australia, some regions have lost 70 percent or more of their wetlands, often as water is diverted for irrigation.
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Seen from above, the wetlands look like a net, with thin bands of land looping around blue blocks of water.
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Compounding matters, wetlands are also breeding ground for mosquitoes and other insects, and broad protection can hamper real estate development.
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Each of these, he explained, represents an aspect of Russia's varied regional landscapes: tundra, the steppe, the wetlands, birch forests.
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Like Houston, Miami is flat and has gobbled up wetlands like the Everglades and coastal stretches to build and build.
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In 2011, he took a crew from CBS's "60 Minutes" to search for jaguars in the Brazilian wetlands near Bolivia.
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More and more communities are taking measures such as preserving wetlands along the coasts to act as buffers against storms.
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When Brazil's Pantanal wetlands flood, for instance, fire ants form rafts so tightly interlaced that water doesn't penetrate their mass.
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As the city has expanded into nearby wetlands, a natural drainage system has been destroyed, increasing the risk of floods.
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Engineers want to be sure their design for a river "diversion" — an enormous mechanism for restoring eroded wetlands — will work.
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They want to be sure their design for a river "diversion" — an enormous mechanism for restoring eroded wetlands — will work.
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"When I think about a company coming in and filling in the wetlands," said Mr. Keyes, his voice trailing off.
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By working with a coalition of outdoor groups, they built a broad legislative package to support fisheries, wetlands and wildlife.
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Denuded of its wetlands and mangrove forests from Texas to Florida, much of the coastline started slumping into the sea.
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