wetlands

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Space4Nature said it had also restored more than 60 hectares of pollinator habitat at 22 sites across Surrey, including wildflower meadows, heathlands, wetlands and hedgerows.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

Across Nigeria's oil-rich southern Niger Delta, decades of oil spills have left a landscape deeply scarred, with wetlands increasingly coated in crude and contaminated sediment.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

The fertile soils south of the Rhine-Meuse wetlands had attracted pioneer Neolithic farmer-colonists as early as 5,500BC.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2026

When, by the mid-1980s, commercial hunting and the destruction of wetlands brought nine of 10 major North American duck species into steep decline, a 1985 farm bill helped reverse that.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

The city sat between the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the vast wetlands of the Everglades to the west, northwest, and south.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz