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Peat bogs in the tropics store vast amounts of carbon, but logging, plantations, road building, and other activities have destroyed large swaths of these ecosystems in places like Indonesia and Malaysia. Peat formations are essentially permanently fl

A new analysis of how peat formations develop makes it possible to evaluate their carbon content and dynamics from simple elevation measurements. The method should enable more precise and accurate assessments of the amount of carbon that would be released by any proposed draining of peatlands.