Peatlands protect against wildfire and flooding, but they're still under attack in Canada
By Edward Struzik, Fellow, Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
Peatlands play an outsized role in filtering water and mitigating floods, drought and wildfire — and they store twice as much carbon as all the world’s forests.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2021