Gold mining in Madre de Dios, Peru, is destroying rare peatland swamps that serve as critical carbon sinks, a new study found. The study, published in Environmental Research Letters, used 35 years ...

Invertebrate Paleontology; Carbonate Sedimentology; Paleozoic Coal Swamps; Measuring Mg/Ca ratios of permineralized plants and marine invertebrates (echinoderm crinoids) found in Late Pennsylvanian ...