Natural Mechanism Could Lower Emissions from Tropical Peatlands

ENN
Sep 11, 2018, 2:35 pm359 pts
Scientists have long feared that as Earth warms, tropical peatlands -- which store up to 10 percent of the planet’s soil carbon -- could dry out, decay and release vast pools of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere, rapidly accelerating climate change.

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