Everglades Restoration Also Helps Save the Planet from Climate Change, Study Finds

Inside Climate News · By Amy Green · last updated March 17, 2026 – 1:06 AM

New research shows the carbon absorbed by the Everglades is equal to 10 percent of the emissions coming from Florida roadways, but the watershed’s methane emissions complicate the picture.

By Amy Green

Restoring Florida’s fragile Everglades can help stem the greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the global climate and contributing to hotter temperatures, rising seas and more damaging storms in this particularly vulnerable state, new research has found.

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