UPSC PRELIMS · GEOGRAPHY · PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY: PEATLANDS
The world's largest tropical peatland is located in which one of the following regions? It stores carbon equivalent to several years of global fossil-fuel emissions.
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EXPLANATION
The Congo Basin contains the world's largest tropical peatland complex. Its peatlands store a very large quantity of carbon, making the region important for global climate regulation.
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