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Rewetting peatlands to fight climate change

Kai Steinecke
November 4, 2022

Peatlands are great for the climate because they store huge amounts of carbon, but the majority of them were dried out for peat mining and agricultural purposes. Now peatlands are being rewetted by the very farmers who destroyed them.

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