Wetlands across the world are drying up and burning - here's how we can protect them.
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Wetlands provide clean water and food, serve as home for thousands of species, and mitigate climate change - but they're drying up and burning.
These ecosystems where the land is typically saturated with water - like swamps, marshes, and floodplains - cover nearly 500,000 acres across the world, and they're protected by the Ramsar Convention treaty.
But they're under constant threat from urban growth, drought, and wildfires. The increase and intensity of severe weather events are leading to acidification, cracking, and compaction of the soil, leaving ecosystems much more fragile.
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