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Guest post: How human activity threatens the world’s carbon-rich peatlands Posted on 8 January 2021 by Guest Author This article, guest authored by Prof. Angela Gallego-Sala & Dr. Julie Loisel, was originally published on the Carbon Brief website on Dec 21, 2020. It is reposted below in its entirety. Click here to access the original article and comments. Peatlands  Peatlands are ecosystems unlike any other. Perpetually saturated, their wetland soils are inhospitable to many plants and trees, yet they are rich in carbon. But the world’s peatlands are under threat on multiple fronts. Fro...

Peatlands keep a lot of carbon out of Earth's atmosphere, but that could end with warming and development Although they only occupy three percent of the global land area, peatlands contain about 25 percent of global soil carbon — twice as much as the world’s forests. Dec 11, 2020 12:56:59 IST Peatlands are a type of wetland where dead plant material doesn’t fully decompose because it’s too soggy. In these ecosystems, peat builds up as spongy dark soil that’s sometimes referred to as sod or turf. Over thousands of years, yards-thick layers of peat accumulate and trap huge amounts of...