In Europe and Western Siberia, permafrost peatlands are coming much closer to a climatic tipping point compared to what was believed earlier, and researchers warn about this.
Frozen peatlands store twice the amount of carbon as all of the European forests put together, but global warming is causing them to melt, a University of Leeds-led study warns.
39.5 billion tonnes of carbon, roughly twice the amount contained in Europe’s forests, is risk of being released to the atmosphere and turbocharging climate change
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