Toxic metals found in UK peatlands could pose health risk
Wildfires and climate change could see decades' worth of pollutants released into the water courses.
"Toxic heavy metals stored in peatlands in the UK could cause health risks to humans, animals and agriculture if ecosystems are not cared for."
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Our new paper shows peat initiating since 1949 C.E. in a rapidly warming and deglaciating valley in Aotearoa/New Zealand. An amazing montane site, with implications for peatland dynamics at high elevations and latitudes under anthropogenic climate change. Open access here: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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Fully funded PhD opportunity Ecohydrological response of tropical peatlands to climate change and human impacts (QUADRAT DTP: Ecohydrological response of tropical peatlands to climate change and human impacts at Queen’s University Belfast on findaphd.com)
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