130,000 years of data show peatlands store carbon long-term
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 - 12:20
in Earth & Climate
An international team of scientists has become the first to conduct a study of global peatland extent and carbon stocks through the last interglacial-glacial cycle 130,000 years ago to the present. The team discovered that northern peatland expanded across high latitudes during warm periods and were buried during periods of cooling, or glacial advance.