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Dec 24, 2021
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Congo’s carbon bomb
Max Bearak
The Washington Post
The peatland that stretches across 56,000 square miles of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the neighbouring Republic of Congo holds as much carbon as the “whole world currently emits in three years”, says Max Bearak. When disturbed, these peatlands, parts of which have been accumulating carbon for around 17,000 years, can rapidly release the gas, along with another potent greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide, in what experts term a “carbon bomb”. Scientists
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