Peatland restoration in temperate nations could be carbon storage bonanza

Mongabay
Feb 9, 2023, 3:46 pm193 pts
On April 6, 1985, a soil mining machine sparked a peat fire near the North Carolina coast in an ecosystem called a pocosin, an Indigenous Algonquin term that means, aptly, “swamp on a hill.” The flames spread quickly across 95,000 acres (38,400 hectares) of temperate peatland ecosystem, made more…

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