Wetlands

Inside Climate News
View In: WetlandsIn a quiet corner of the oldest botanic garden in North America grows a tree with long, graceful branches and leaves that curl like rust-colored tongues. When it’s blooming, the tree’s snow-white flowers are said to smell like honeysuckle, but at the end of November, its branches are bare, and its leave...

Yale E360
View In: WetlandsThe Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland, has been battered in recent years by agricultural development, drought, and fire. Now, a push to turn the region’s key river into a waterway for soybean-laden barges threatens to alter the natural flows of this iconic ecosystem. Read more on E360 →

Yale Universities Climate Connections
View In: Wetlands Scientists conducted experiments at a bog in northern Minnesota. The post Peat bogs will release more heat-trapping gases as global warming continues, researchers find appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.