Huge Amazon swamp carbon stores under threat

Edinburgh UK (SPX) Apr 15, 2022

Urgent protection is needed to prevent carbon gas emissions from decomposing peat swamps in lowland Peruvian Amazonia (LPA) - which are bigger than previously thought. Scientists discovered small but growing areas of deforestation across the LPA, including an 11-fold increase in CO2 emissions linked to mining, between 2000 and 2016. The research, led by the Universities of Edinburgh