Fen, bog & swamp: a short history of peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis
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From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx - whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth - comes an urgent and riveting history of wetlands, their ecological role and how the loss of them threatens the planet. Fens, bogs, swamps and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four illuminating parts Proulx documents the emergence of their systemic destruction in the pursuit of profit and the consequent release of their stored carbon. Wide-ranging and idiosyncratic, Proulx's explanation of wetlands takes readers to the fens of sixteenth-century England, Canada's Hudson Bay Lowlands, Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire and America's Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and introduces the nineteenth-century explorers who launched the ravaging of the Amazon rainforest. Proulx was born in the 1930s, a time, as she says, when 'in the ever-continuing name of progress, Western countries busily raped their own and other countries of minerals, timber, fish and wildlife.' Fen, Bog & Swamp is both a revelatory history and an urgent plea for wetland reclamation from a writer whose passionate devotion to observing and preserving the environment is on glorious display.
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Bogs
Bogs -- Climatic factors
Climatic changes
Climatic factors
Fens
Fens -- Climatic factors
NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Lakes, Ponds & Swamps
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
Peatland ecology
Peatland management
Peatland restoration
Peatlands
Peatlands -- Climatic factors
SCIENCE / Natural History
Swamps
Swamps -- Climatic factors
Wetland restoration
Wetlands
Wetlands -- Climatic factors
Bogs
Bogs -- Climatic factors
Climatic changes
Climatic factors
Fens
Fens -- Climatic factors
NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Lakes, Ponds & Swamps
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
Peatland ecology
Peatland management
Peatland restoration
Peatlands
Peatlands -- Climatic factors
SCIENCE / Natural History
Swamps
Swamps -- Climatic factors
Wetland restoration
Wetlands
Wetlands -- Climatic factors
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Peatland management
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Climatic changes
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Fen, bog & swamp : a short history of peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis
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a short history of peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis
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Climatic changes
Climatic factors
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Peatland restoration
Peatlands
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Wetland restoration
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Climatic factors
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Peatland ecology
Peatland management
Peatland restoration
Peatlands
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Swamps
Wetland restoration
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