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Peru’s rare peatland swamps at risk as illegal gold mining expandsBy Maxwell Radwin Hidden within the Amazon Rainforest are rare, carbon-rich ecosystems known as peatlands, a type of swamp ...
Using over 35 years of satellite data from NASA's Landsat program, researchers tracked the spread of gold mining into Amazonian peatlands, which store large amounts of carbon underground.
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