RedOrbit: Greenhouse gas emissions originating from drained wetlands are roughly equal to that given off by industrial factories, a team of Swedish researchers claim in a new study.
Experts from the University of Gothenburg and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) were commissioned by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency to analyze and compile a report about the amount of greenhouse gases given off by forests and agricultural fields on areas that once had been wetlands.
They discovered......
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Sweden: Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Drained Wetlands Equal To Industrial Sources
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 24th, 2012
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