Land-building marsh plants are champions of carbon capture - EurekAlert

Human activities such as marsh draining for agriculture are increasingly eating away at saltwater and freshwater wetlands that cover only 1% of Earth’s surface but store more than 20% of all carbon dioxide absorbed by ecosystems worldwide. A new study by Dutc…

image: Acre for acre, a salt marsh like this one in the Netherlands Western Scheldt estuary, stores five times more carbon than a forest.view more  Credit: Edwin Paree DURHAM, N.C. – Human activiti… [+5110 chars]

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