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Half of all wetlands 'destroyed since 1900'

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Agence France-Presse

Publication Date
2012-10-17

HYDERABAD, India — An alarming 50 percent of the world's wetlands have been destroyed in the last 100 years, threatening human welfare at a time of increasing water scarcity, a new report said.

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