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Angola’s peatlands highly underestimated, new study suggests
AI KEY TAKEAWAYS (TL;DR)
- The Southwestern African nation of Angola has much more peatland than previously thought, new research suggests
- In a study published on August 20 in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, researchers mapped out peatlands in the Angolan Highlands Water Tower (AHWT)
- This vast landscape stores and regulates freshwater in central Angola and feeds freshwater systems […]
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The Southwestern African nation of Angola has much more peatland than previously thought, new research suggests. In a study published on August 20 in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, researchers mapped out peatlands in the Angolan Highlands Water Tower (AHWT). This vast landscape stores and regulates freshwater in central Angola and feeds freshwater systems […]
