Deep, dank and mysterious

• Autores: Rachel E. Gross
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2935, 2013, págs. 40-43
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Little has changed in the five centuries since. To ecologists, bogs are a mysterious black box: almost all their carbon storage and chemical processing takes place out of sight, within the mushy layers of peat. Dan Stover, who manages terrestrial ecosystem sciences at the US DOE, says people walk on the largest reservoir of terrestrial carbon every day and only have a rudimentary understanding of how important the inherent processes are to the Earth's climate system. Here, Gross says people need to understand their best weapon against global warning because it could turn against them.