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World's Largely Unprotected Peatlands Are Ticking 'Carbon Bomb,' Warns Study
jeudi 13 février 2025, 18:40 , par Slashdot
The world's peatlands are 'dangerously underprotected' despite the colossal amount of climate-heating carbon dioxide already being emitted due to their destruction, a study has warned. From a report: Peatlands occupy just 3% of all land, but contain more carbon than all of the world's forests. However, farmers and miners are draining the peatlands, releasing so much CO2 that if they were a country, they would be the fourth biggest polluter in the world after China, the US and India.
The first global assessment found that only 17% of the peatlands were within protected areas. This contrasted starkly with other valuable ecosystems such as tropical forests, where 38% were protected, and mangroves (42%). Protection was even lower than the 17% average in the three nations with the most peatlands: Canada, Russia and Indonesia. The US and Brazil completed the top five nations, which contained almost three-quarters of all peatlands, and had higher proportions in protected areas. But the researchers cautioned that protected status on a map did not always translate to strong protection on the ground. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/02/13/141239/worlds-largely-unprotected-peatlands-are-ticking-car...
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