Climate change may turn Amazon peatlands from carbon sinks to sources

Mongabay
Nov 22, 2018, 1:17 pm145 pts
Peatlands, or bogs, are areas where a lack of oxygen in waterlogged soil allows dead vegetation to accumulate without completely decomposing. Scattered around the world in both northern latitudes and the tropics, some peatlands have been storing up for thousands of years, with peat that can be more than 20…

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