A few articles tangentially related to wetlands this week:
A hat tip to Scientific American, where the Coastal and Marine Geology Video and Photograph Portal was recently mentioned. The portal is chock full of USGS video and photography of the seafloor off of coastal California and Massachusetts, and aerial imagery collected over the past few decades.
The best longform articles often find their way to longform.org, where I read
This sinking isle: the homeowners battling coastal erosion , about how the British isles are reacting to and coping with climate change and its effect on it coast; considering the island's coastline is longer than India’s.
Finally, a thought provoking conjecture that shellfish along the Eastern Seaboard are catching cancer, apparently virally, something that has only been recorded in a few species worldwide.
Wetlands in the News
19 April 2024
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Iowa company's lawsuit challenges federal ‘swampbuster law’ that protects wetlands
CTM Holdings is challenging a 1985 federal law that cuts off USDA benefits for property owners who develop or cultivate designated wetlands...
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Streams that supply drinking water in danger following 2023 Supreme Court decision that stripped wetlands protections: Report
A Supreme Court decision that stripped protections from America's wetlands will have reverberating impacts on rivers that supply drinking water all over the U.S.
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Field-margin wetlands alone can't fix the Gulf of Mexico's dead zone, say researchers
Each summer, a hypoxic dead zone forms in the Gulf of Mexico, making some marine habitats unlivable. The dead zone is caused by nutrients—primarily from agricultural fertilizers—flowing into the Gulf...
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Winter Haven approves $3.7M contract to transform reclaimed wetlands into Lake Conine park
The park will have a mile-long trail around its perimeter with smaller trails inside, picnic tables, a playground, an osprey tower and a bat house.
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Wetlands issue is way bigger than lakes
Let’s pick up where we left off six weeks ago. You, faithful reader of this column, already understand some effects of the state’s designating parts of Chautauqua Lake as wetlands. For one, any...