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Peat is used by gardeners and for horticulture in certain parts of the world, [8] but this is being banned in some places. [9] By volume, there are about 4 trillion cubic metres of peat in the world. [10]
Tropical peat is a type of histosol that is found in tropical latitudes, including South East Asia, Africa, and Central and South America. [2] Tropical peat mostly consists of dead organic matter from trees instead of spaghnum which are commonly found in temperate peat. [ 3 ]
About 0.02% of the 1.1 million km 2 (420,000 sq mi) of Canadian peat bog are used for peat moss mining. [29] Some efforts are being made to restore peat bogs after peat mining, and some debate exists as to whether the peat bogs can be restored to their premining condition and how long the process takes.
A peatland that is still capable of forming new peat is called a mire, while drained and converted peatlands might still have a peat layer but are not considered mires as the formation of new peat has ceased. [1] There are two types of mire: bog and fen. [2]
Inland peat formed much earlier during the Late Pleistocene, more than 26000 BP. [13] Coastal peat formation is highly affected by the sea level rise with strong accumulation around 8-4000 BP when El Nino is less intense. [14]
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For the greenhouse gas inventories the natural peat lands are basically neutral since storage of carbon equals release of methane. The agricultural land use will never restore the carbon permanently in the ecosystem equal to the original peat layers. There is no difference in the burning of peat or coal in respect to the climate warming. [29]
In fact, though this rule of thumb has been around since the 1960s, there’s little *scientific* evidence that walking 10,000 steps should be your target, according to a 2022 review in The Lancet.