Peat Lands Are Crucial to Fight Climate Change

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Peat lands are crucial to fight climate change. They store twice as much carbon as all the world's forest together, while covering less than three per et of the land surfice. But when it comes to carbon storage, pelands still don't get the attention that forests do. Anderson thinks it's because all the carbon in at peland is below ground.

A few years back, 99pi producer Emmett FitzGerald brought us a beautiful story about peat bogs. Peat is essential for biodiversity and for the climate – it is really, really good at storing carbon. But like a lot of things we cover on the show, peat often goes unnoticed, in part because it is literally out of sight underground. We’ve noticed peat and carbon sequestration more and more in the news lately. Journalists have been brilliantly covering stories about the tree planting movement, private ownership of Scotland’s bogs, and the threat to peat in the Congo Basin. Couple that with more extreme weather happening in more places, we thought it would be a good idea to repeat this story.

For the Love of Peat