Swamplands: Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs, and the Improbable World of Peat Struzik Edward
Swamplands: Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs, and the Improbable World of Peat Struzik Edward In a world filled with breathtaking beauty, we have often overlooked the elusive charm and magic of certain…
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Swamplands: Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs, and the Improbable World of Peat Struzik Edward
In a world filled with breathtaking beauty, we have often overlooked the elusive charm and magic of certain landscapes. Further south, cypress branches hang low over dismal swamps. A cloudy river flows into a verdant Arctic wetland where sandhill cranes and muskoxen dwell.
They are as globally significant as rainforests, and function as critical carbon sinks for addressing our climate crisis. Places like these-collectively known as swamplands or peatlands-often go unnoticed for their ecological splendor. Yet, because of their reputation as wastelands, they are being systematically drained and degraded to make way for oilsands, mines, farms, and electricity.In Swamplands, journalist Edward Struzik celebrates these wild places, venturing into windswept bogs in Kauai and the last remnants of an ancient peatland in the Mojave Desert.
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