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Fen, bog & swamp : a short history of peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis / Annie Proulx.

ISBN: 9781797141770
ISBN: 1797141775
ISBN: 9781797141787
ISBN: 1797141783
Physical Description: 4 audio discs (5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: [New York] : Simon &amp; Schuster Audio, [2022]
Copyright: &#8471;&copy;2022

Proulx, Annie, (author.). Zackman, Gabra, (narrator.).

Summary:

A lifelong environmentalist, Annie Proulx brings her wide-ranging research and scholarship to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important yet little understood role they play in preserving the environment, by storing the carbon emissions that greatly contribute to climate change. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four stunning parts, Proulx documents the long-misunderstood role of these wetlands in saving the planet. Taking us on a fascinating journey through history, Proulx shows us the fens of 16th-century England to Canada's Hudson Bay lowlands, Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire, America's Okeefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, and the 19th-century explorers who began the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Along the way, she writes of the diseases spawned in the wetlands, the Ague, malaria, Marsh Fever, and the surprisingly significant role of peat in industrialization.