Environmentalists fight to protect peat bogs essential to balancing carbon emissions

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Environmentalists fight to protect peat bogs essential to balancing carbon emissions – CBS News

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Environmentalists in Scotland are sounding the alarm in hopes of preserving one of nature’s best weapons in fighting climate change: peat bogs. Peat bogs make up just 3% of the Earth’s land mass but store 30% of all land-based carbon, which is twice as much as all the world’s forests. Mark Phillips has more.

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