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Restoring the Bay Area’s wetlands one native plant at a time

Season 2016 | 6m 21s

The San Francisco Bay’s wetlands are disappearing at an alarming rate due to encroaching urban development, which endangers not only the local ecosystem but worldwide efforts to slow global warming, since the wetlands can store as much carbon as an entire tropical rainforest. Sonia Aronson of the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs takes a look at how residents are working to save the bay.

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