Going Ghostbusters on Peatlands
Jenny Rogers
Peatlands store vast amounts of carbon worldwide—when they’re healthy that is. Degraded peatlands can actually give off some emissions of their own. To study just how much carbon dioxide and methane degraded peatlands give off, Mark Felice, a peatlands scientist for The Nature Conservancy, and his colleagues are using monitoring equipment—devices with canisters strapped to their backs not unlike some famous Hollywood ghost hunters—to measure the colorless gases in Minnesota.
It’s the first step.