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Bogs sequester more than _______ tons of carbon all around the word.

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Bogs sequester more than 100 million metric tons of carbon worldwide.

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Bogs sequester more than 100 million metric tons of carbon all around the world (Schlesinger 1991). The soil's capacity to store carbon is even greater than what plants can store, with soil storing 1.8 times the carbon that plants can store per area (Schlesinger 1991). Peatlands, in particular, can store carbon up to 10 times greater than the plants growing on it (Page and Rieley 1998).

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