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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.

Land-building marsh plants are champions of carbon capture

Wetlands are Earth’s most efficient natural storage system for climate-warming carbon dioxide

Human activities such as marsh draining for agriculture and logging are increasingly eating away at saltwater and freshwater wetlands that cover only one per cent of Earth’s surface but store more than 20 per cent of all the climate-warming carbon dioxide absorbed by ecosystems worldwide. A new study published May 6 in Science by a