{"id":27479,"date":"2008-10-14T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:37:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:37:48","slug":"2479-drier-peatlands-add-to-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/2479-drier-peatlands-add-to-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Drier peatlands \u201cadd to warming\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In their computer models, the Japanese scientists found that peatlands &#8212; concentrated in high-latitude areas such as Canada, Russia and Alaska &ndash; will become increasingly drier as global temperatures increase and more carbon dioxide (CO2) is released.<\/p>\n<p>\nPeat, which covers about 2% of global land mass, is the accumulation of partially decayed vegetation in very wet places. 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