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June 10, 2025
“...that all the Fens is a meer quagmire”
The area of the Fens extends around the bay of The Wash, in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire. These are extensive wetlands, some of which were flooded from the sea (salt marshes), but some were also created by the backwater of rivers (Witham, Welland, Nene or Great Ouse). The land is in some places below sea level, so that there is no gradient for natural drainage...
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May 6, 2025
Planting a Bulrush to Save the Planet. K?the Seidel…
Throughout her life, K?the Seidel (1907-1990) has worked on the bulrush and constructed wetlands. A controversial character, she is remembered both as a prophet for living otherwise and an epitome of alternative science. For the age of the Anthropocene, she represents an intellectual who firmly believed that planting a wetland would do nothing short of saving the planet….
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April 8, 2025
From ‘imperishable good deed’ to ecological disaster...
“An everlasting good deed” this is how Stephan von Stengel described the project to drain the Doanaumoos, which he was instrumental in promoting in 1791. Lately, for reasons of climate protection, there has been a tendency to renaturalize wetlands as far as possible.
“Why to drain an inland wetland?” examines, how it came about that numerous wetlands were drained from the 18th century onwards...
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