Reuters: Warmer temperatures in the years ahead will dry up peatlands, release more carbon dioxide into the world’s atmosphere and aggravate global warming, a study in Japan has found. Peat is the accumulation of partially decayed vegetation in very wet places and it covers about two percent of global land mass. Peatlands store large amounts of carbon owing to the low rates of carbon breakdown in cold, waterlogged soils. Using computer modeling, scientists in Japan found that peatlands …