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Protecting the world's wetlands: 5 essential reads

  • Written by Jennifer Weeks, Environment + Energy Editor, The Conversation
Marshes at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on Maryland's Eastern Shore.Ataraxy22/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

World Wetlands Day on Feb. 2 marks the date when 18 nations signed the Convention on Wetlands in 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Since that time, scientists have shown that wetlands provide many valuable...

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