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Peat bogs—pools of dead plant material that does not decay due to the cold, wet environment—facilitate a build-up of undecomposed carbon...
...process generates more peat, a positive-feedback cycle that makes peat bogs huge carbon sinks, according to the study...
...carbon is also a looming threat to atmospheric stability...
...researchers’ analysis of peat bogs in northern Manitoba found that a temperature increase of four degrees Celsius—a conservative estimate of future warming—would release 40 percent of stored carbon in shallow peat bogs and up to 86 percent of carbon in deeper bogs, further contributing to the buildup of greenhouse gases...
Peat bogs contain 30 to 60 times the amount of carbon emitted annually worldwide, and their destabilization threatens to dramatically accelerate the global warming process, Moorcroft said...