"Wetland loss" refers to the shrinking or disappearance of wetlands, which are areas of land saturated with water, such as swamps, marshes, or bogs. It means that these important ecosystems are getting destroyed or reduced in size.
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«wetland»
«loss»
Sentences with «wetland loss»
- During the 1990s the rate of wetlands loss in the U.S. declined by some 80 percent over previous decades. (scientificamerican.com)
- While a large degree of wetland loss in the Gulf of Mexico is inevitable due to the dual forces of land subsidence and sea level rise, project developer Tierra Resources and utility Entergy are optimistic that wetland restoration is possible in some areas. (anthropozine.com)
- They focused on scalable restoration methods that show commercialization potential as wetland offset projects to determine the carbon impact of incorporating prevented wetland loss in carbon accounting, determine the state's offset potential, and what the financial estimates are of the blue carbon. (anthropozine.com)
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