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From fire breaks to fire hazards: Human activity & climate change transforming world's peatlands

2016-06-27 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

PhysOrg: Since the glaciers receded about 12,000 years ago, the humble bog has acted as a storage vault for atmospheric carbon, packed with dead moss and topped by a green layer of living moss that can come back after a burn. The world's bogs hold more carbon than the word's rainforests, and Canada is home to about 185 billion tonnes of increasingly vulnerable peat deposits, ranging from 40 cm to several metres deep. Dried peatlands fuelled a 2011 fire in Slave Lake Alberta, for example, and the recent...

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