Harvesting peat moss contributes to climate change
As it’s harvested, the carbon is exposed to the atmosphere. Decomposition releases the carbon back into the atmosphere, contributing to a warming climate. It also destroys a native habitat essential to the survival of many birds, reptiles, insects and small mammals
https://www.miragenews.com/harvesting-peat-moss-contributes-to-climate-913058/
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Cochise County, AZ – Seventeen feet above the ground, towering over the native Sonoran grasses and oak saplings of the surrounding bajadas, a group of young people stretched out languidly in the sun, chatting and laughing and playing guitar. In a line to their east, the double-stacked shipping containers beneath them stretched out for over […]
