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a swamp that hoards carbon better than any bank and refuses to rot
means A low-lying wetland fed by groundwater, where waterlogged, alkaline soil keeps plant matter from fully decaying, building up peat over centuries.
from From Old English 'fenn,' meaning mud or marsh, with deep Germanic roots — a cousin of Old Norse 'fen' and Gothic 'fani' (mud). The word has waded through English largely unchanged for over a thousand years, and it still soaks the place-names of England's Fenlands, those famously flat, drained marshes of the east.
- chemistry
- alkaline water, unlike its acidic cousin the bog
- carbon vault
- peatlands store twice the world's forest carbon
- slow decay
- low oxygen preserves bodies for millennia
- the fens
- England drained vast wetlands into farmland
- rare life
- home to orchids and carnivorous sundews
norfolk broads — largest wetland area in england, covering 63 square miles in norfolk
everglades — 2.7 million-acre freshwater marsh in florida, usa
cambridgeshire fens — drained peatlands in eastern england, once the largest fens in britain