Overlooked as one of the world’s most effective natural carbon sinks, peatlands are under dire threat from human activity, finds a new study published in the journal Conservation Letters by the ...

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Peatlands are important — the UN Environment Programme estimates as much as 600 billion tonnes of carbon are stored there, as decaying organic material gets trapped inside a water-rich environment.

To prevent the same chaos that saw him elected, Gregory X enacted new rules that sequestered the electors and locked them in — hence the term "conclave." Despite some outliers, such as the ...