Flooding Wetlands Could Be the Next Big Carbon Capture Hack

Powered by solar energy, these bores have had just as much effect as the original breaching of the bund, but they’re not subject to the same climatic vicissitudes. As a result, the saltwater wetlands are flourishing. “Before the bores, the wetlands were more than half-infested in weeds,” says Kennedy from BirdLife Australia. Now, tens of […]

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The Wetlands Are Drowning

Schoenoplectus americanus, or the chairmaker’s bulrush, is a common wetland plant in the Americas, and it has an existential problem. It has chosen to live in a place where it is always at risk of being drowned.  Like all plants, the bulrush requires oxygen to produce energy. One solution is obvious: Send shoots skyward like […]

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