Word: peated
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...research disputes a long-standing belief that peat bogs in the northern latitudes were fairly immune to temperature increases because of consistent precipitation patterns in those regions...
...There has been the assumption that since precipitation hasn’t changed, the peat lands will be fine,” Moorcroft said...
...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...
...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...