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by civilitty 1026 days ago
The situation with Canadian forests is much worse. The Amazon accounts for 20% of the global carbon sink but the meters-thick layer of peat below Canadian forests is a third of all carbon stored (along with the peatland in Russia, which is also burning).

There’s enough carbon stored in that peat to double or triple the CO2 ppm which would be absolutely catastrophic to the planet.