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Restoring Germany's dried out forest peatland

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Jürgen Schneider
December 10, 2024

The forested wetlands in Saxony's Ore Mountains were drained to make space for commercial tree stock, a catastrophe for climate change. A project is working to restore these areas to the powerful carbon sinks and biodiversity havens they once were.

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