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The Ides of Marsh
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27 Mar 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| The Ides of Marsh Verdant marshes and wetlands were much of what helped put the "fertile" in the Fertile Crescent, that swath of land between the Tigris and Euphrates that is considered the birthplace of Western civilization. But in the last few decades, those marshes have been all but destroyed by dam-building and civil strife in Iraq. Those marshes that do remain could disappear in a ... |
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| Topics: environmental restoration, health, United Nations, wetlands (all these topics) |
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