A Mind-Boggling Carbon Deposit Was Just Discovered in the Congo
A fresh - discovered peatland in the Congo Basin of central Africa contains an judge 30.6 billion tons of carbon in its waterlogged soils — tantamount to three times the full yearly carbon emissions of every human being alive today . cover an surface area the size of it of England , the Cuvette Central is the largest tropical peatland arena on Earth , dramatically increasing the amount of carbon copy hive away in our planet ’s red-hot and humid midriff , according to an analysis published last workweek inNature ....