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What lies beneath

Pond

he resilience of nature is astonishing. Human activity has destroyed so many naturally occurring ponds, filling them in for arable land and abandoning others to a build-up of vegetation, meaning a loss of oxygen, light and, ultimately, wildlife. But an ongoing project by the University College London’s Pond Restoration Research Group

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