2026-06-05 · gigatonnes carbon in peatlands

Peat holds more carbon than all forests

Waterlogged peat soils store dead plant carbon for millennia. Draining them turns sinks into sources.

How to read: 1 cell = 0.6 gigatonnes carbon in peatlands (0.1% of global peatland carbon stock). 1,000 cells total.

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