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Warming: Peatlands will store more carbon initially, but that will change

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Peatlands are extremely effective at storing carbon, but an international study has found climate change could stop that. The group investigated how peatlands – swamps and bogs with organic rich soils – have responded to climate variability between 850 BCE and 1850 CE.