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Minnesota bog study turns up the heat on peat

Source
Nature

Publication Date
2015-08-25

Ten octagonal enclosures — each 12 metres across, 8 metres high and open to the sky — dot the US Forest Service’s Marcell Experimental Forest. Boardwalks wend their way around them, allowing scientists to walk above a pristine 8.1-hectare peat bog and get a close-up peek at Earth’s greenhouse fate.

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http://www.nature.com/news/minnesota-bog-study-turns-up-the-heat-on-peat-1.18235