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Sniffing the Delta for Greenhouse Gases

Janet Byron | June 16th, 2022


Global food production contributes an estimated 21% to 37% of the greenhouse gases that are warming the planet, including huge releases of carbon when vast aquatic ecosystems like the Delta are transformed for agriculture. [Dennis] Baldocchi and colleagues are now trying to figure out if bringing back tidal wetlands like the one at Dutch Slough can help reverse these processes.

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climate change, floodplain restoration, levees, mitigation, Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta, wetlands