By Clement Bonnerot DAKAR, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Two large lakes in the Democratic Republic of Congo are releasing carbon that has been locked away for thousands of years in surrounding peatlands, ...
Deep in the Congo Basin, vast peatlands quietly store enormous amounts of Earth’s carbon — but new research suggests this ancient vault may be leaking. Scientists studying Africa’s largest blackwater ...
In among all that life, the swamplands can cut a striking image. Lake Mai Ndombe, and its neighbor Lake Tumba, are both what’s known as “blackwater” lakes – the water, darkened by millennia of dead ...
Researchers at ETH Zurich have now discovered for the first time that large blackwater lakes in the extensive peatlands of ...
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