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ESTUARY covers water supply, wetland and wildlife-related stories about San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, everything from pollution problems to efforts to save endangered species and prevent floods, fish kills and ecological invasions. This eight-page newsletter, published six times a year, is packed with science, politics, people, humor and insight. ESTUARY is funded by the San Francisco Estuary Project, partner donations, and subscriptions.
The Current Issue, October 2008...
CARBON SINK OR BOMB?
As climate change threatens to devastate the world’s perennially challenged wetlands—and in so doing release unprecedented quantities of greenhouse gases—scientists in the Delta are working to turn a subsided island into a “carbon-capture farm” that will trap atmospheric carbon dioxide and rebuild lost soils. “Farmers just can’t continue farming the way they have done,” says the U.S. Geological Survey’s Roger Fujii, noting that longstanding practices have caused so much land subsidence that many Delta islands are now more than 20 feet below sea level and protected only by fragile levees. Microbial oxidation of the peat soils also releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere....
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