Our Sustainable Future: Peatland carbon storage is stabilized against catastrophic release of carbon

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Concerns that global warming may have a domino effect —unleashing 600 billion tons of carbon in vast expanses of peat in the Northern hemisphere and accelerating warming to disastrous proportions — may be less justified than previously thought. That’s the

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Concerns that global warming may have a domino effect —unleashing
600 billion tons of carbon in vast expanses of peat in the Northern
hemisphere and accelerating warming to disastrous proportions — may
be less justified than previously thought. That’s the conclusion of
a new study on the topic in ACS’ journal Environmental Science and
Technology.