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In a world filled with breathtaking beauty, we have often overlooked the elusive charm and magic of certain landscapes. Places collectively known as swamplands or peatlands often go unnoticed for their ecological splendor. They are as globally significant as rainforests, and function as critical carbon sinks for addressing our climate crisis. Yet, because of their reputation as wastelands, they are being systematically drained and degraded to make way for oilsands, mines, farms, and electricity. In Swamplands, journalist Edward Struzik celebrates these wild places, venturing into windswept bogs in Kauai and the last remnants of an ancient peatland in the Mojave Desert. Swamplands highlights the unappreciated struggle being waged to save peatlands by scientists, conservationists, and landowners around the world. It urges us to see the beauty and importance in these least likely of placesÂ. Our planet’s survival might depend on it.
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