Peatland carbon storage is stabilized against catastrophic release of carbon
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 11:00
in Earth & Climate
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 & Technology.