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Photo of the day - peat

From Hayden:

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Here I'm holding a piece of peat that was excavated from a drainage canal. Peat is a hugely important carbon sink and also provides a very rich medium to sustain an extremely biodiverse ecosystem (i.e. a lot of trees, animals, and plants).

In this area, the peat goes to over 8 meters (24 feet) in depth. That, my friends, is a lot of carbon.

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