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OurAmazingPlanet: Coastal wetlands around the world, including many on the U.S. Atlantic coast, could be more endangered by climate change and sea-level rise than previously thought, a new study suggests.
Coastal wetlands provide critical services such as absorbing energy from hurricanes and storms, preserving shorelines, protecting human populations and infrastructure, supporting commercial seafood harvests, absorbing pollutants and serving as critical habitat for migratory bird populations. These resources and......
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Many U.S. wetlands could vanish by 2100
Posted by OurAmazingPlanet: None Given on December 2nd, 2010
Posted in Water Conservation