Climate Solutions The quest to keep carbon in North Carolina’s wetlands “Every time you lose a foot of peat, there are just so many emissions associated with that," says one federal official. Loading... Sunlight illuminates steam in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge on March 15 near South Mills, N.C. The fire began with a lightning strike on private land on June 1, 2008, and burned for nearly four months. “We need partners.”‘Those emissions reductions are real’One way advocates hope to find those partners is by demonstrating that restoring drained and deteriorating peat land can be financially beneficial. “Nobody is going to become a gazillionaire because they are sitting on drained pocosin land,” he said.

Source: Washington Post May 31, 2022 22:49 UTC