A Simple Water Fix May Be One of the Arctic’s Strongest Climate Solutions

A two-year field experiment conducted in the world’s northernmost cultivated peatland, in Pasvik in Finnmark, found that greenhouse gas emissions can be sharply reduced by raising and maintaining the water table between 25 and 50 centimeters below the soil surface. Peatlands are among nature’s most powerful carbon reservoirs when left undisturbed. Their soils remain saturated […]Earth,Anthropogenic Carbon Cycle,Climate Change,Methane,Soil,Wetland#Simple #Water #Fix #Arctics #Strongest #Climate #Solutions1770207302