A Salt Marsh is a Carbon Sink (IMAGE)

Duke University

A Salt Marsh is a Carbon Sink

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Acre for acre, a salt marsh like this one in the Netherlands’ Western Scheldt estuary, stores five times more carbon than a forest.

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Edwin Paree

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