REVEALING EUROPE’S MOST CRITICAL WETLANDS

Europe’s wetlands are scattered throughout the continent, hiding in valleys and along coastlines or dried and buried under crop fields. Europe was once full of peatlands and marshes, areas that set the foundation for life and slow the effects of climate change.

Inside Climate News reports that europe’s wetlands are scattered throughout the continent, hiding in valleys and along coastlines or dried and buried under crop fields.

The report adds: Europe was once full of peatlands and marshes, areas that set the foundation for life and slow the effects of climate change.

But people drained 80 percent of them in the last century for agriculture […]

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