How Marsden Moor's peat stores could unlock answers in the fight to reverse climate change
- 2 years ago
Deep beneath the rugged moorlands on Marsden Moor is a vast carbon store which experts believe could hold significant answers in the fight to reverse climate change.
This landscape near Huddersfield, managed by the National Trust, has been the subject of volunteer surveys to uncover its carbon capturing potential.
They say peat here, carbon dated to stem as far back as 10,000 years ago, shows it could capture carbon which would otherwise be vulnerable to being released.
A volunteer survey group, working with experts from the University of Leeds, have been assessing a 350 hectare site known as Blakely Clough in the Wessenden Valley.
Calculations suggest stores could be as strong as 300,000 tons - equivalent to the carbon dioxide emitted by using up to 98m gallons of diesel or charging 121bn phones.
Video: The National Trust
This landscape near Huddersfield, managed by the National Trust, has been the subject of volunteer surveys to uncover its carbon capturing potential.
They say peat here, carbon dated to stem as far back as 10,000 years ago, shows it could capture carbon which would otherwise be vulnerable to being released.
A volunteer survey group, working with experts from the University of Leeds, have been assessing a 350 hectare site known as Blakely Clough in the Wessenden Valley.
Calculations suggest stores could be as strong as 300,000 tons - equivalent to the carbon dioxide emitted by using up to 98m gallons of diesel or charging 121bn phones.
Video: The National Trust