Massive greenhouse gases may be released as destruction, drying of world wetlands worsens: UN

Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 21:35 in Earth & Climate

Leading world scientists convene in Brazil July 21-25 amid growing concern that evaporation and ongoing destruction of world wetlands, which hold a volume of carbon similar to that in the atmosphere today, could cause them to exhale billows of greenhouse gases. read more

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