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Salt marshes, bogs, swamps, and freshwater marshes are examples of wetlands, each one home to wide varieties of plant and animal life. This type of biome is a complex ecosystem that benefits people and upon which humans have had destructive impact.
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The Carboniferous rainforest collapse set the stage for a takeover that would be a crucial turning point in the history of terrestrial animal life. If it weren’t for this event in ancient history, human ancestors might never have made it out of the swamps. Part of the “Eons” series.
Researchers who discovered the pygmy sloth never got close enough to take its picture, but one photographer's wild determination brings him within one foot of the sleepy sloth. Eager to learn more about the mysterious life of this rare and elusive creature, Wild Chronicles follows National Geographic photographer Bill Hatcher as he mucks through swamps of a wild Panamanian island and climbs high into the treetops of sloth-land. Segment of video from Wild Chronicles Series.
Everywhere one looks in Southern Louisiana there's water: rivers, bayous, swamps, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico. And everyone in Cajun Country has a water story, or two or three or more. Its waterways support the biggest economies in Louisiana - a $70 billion a year oil and gas industry, a $2.4 billion a year fishing business, tourism and recreational sports. But these waterways are also home to some insidious polluters along a 100-mile-long stretch of the Mississippi known "Cancer Alley," the world's largest Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico and erosion that is costing the coastline twenty five square miles of wetlands a year.
