Thursday, September 27, 2018

Urbanization is cutting off life support to New York City's wetlands

Using sediment cores to trace the evolution of Jamaica Bay's wetlands, a team led by researchers finds that urbanization is weakening the shoreline and starving the marshes of vital mineral sediment, causing their gradual but dramatic erosion.

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