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Canadian Boreal: Protecting Today’s Water for Tomorrow

by Benjamin Preston | 8.5.2011 at 10:40am | 2 Comments

Canada’s Boreal forest is far from the public eye, but it contains 25 percent of the world’s wetlands.

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Category> Energy, Water   Tags> boreal forest, Canada, Climate, climate change, Energy, Global Warming, Infrastructure, Manitoba, North America, Surface Water, water matters, water/energy nexus

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