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Critical ecosystems: Congo Basin peatlands

Leaders from across Africa and Asia will gather this week in Gabon for an international summit on the state of the world’s tropical forests, which experts say are disappearing at an alarming rate. Many of the discussions will focus on the Congo Basin, which stores more planet-warming carbon than the Amazon but is disappearing.  The Congo Basin is home to the world’s largest tropical peatlands, along with Brazil and Indonesia. The peat swamp forest of the Congo Basin stores around 29 billion tons of

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