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Climate change alters what's possible in restoring Florida's Everglades

  • Written by William Nuttle, Science Integrator, Integration and Application Network, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Sawgrass prairie in Everglades National Park.NPS/G. Gardner

The Everglades are a vast network of subtropical freshwater wetland and estuarine ecosystems that once spanned the length and breadth of south Florida. Fifty years of dredging and diking, starting in 1948, greatly reduced their extent, altering water flow patterns and causing widespread...

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