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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Environment
Rebecca Black

Warmer summers ‘could boost growth rates in European peatlands’ – research finds

Warmer summers could boost the growth of European Peatlands, according to research (Richard Fewster/PA) -

Warmer summers could help boost growth rates in European peatlands, new research has found.

The peatlands, which contain around half of Europe’s soil carbon, need a combination of warm temperatures and a water table of around 10cm to thrive, researchers at Queen’s University Belfast found.

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