Questions for ‘Ponds made to control floods can spew climate-warming gases, study finds’
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This Florida community built ponds to collect water from storms, which should limit flooding. But a new study finds such ponds can have unintended impacts: They can spew the greenhouse gases that foster global warming — itself a driver of extreme storms and flooding.
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