Research: Congo peatlands could emit billions of tonnes of carbon in drier climate

Washington [US], November 3 (ANI): New research reveals that the world's largest tropical peatland turned from being a major store of carbon to a source of damaging carbon dioxide emissions as a result of climate change thousands of years ago. Around the time that Stonehenge was built, 5,000 years ago, the climate of central Congo began to dry leading to the peatlands emitting carbon dioxide.

The peatlands only stopped re