Midlatitude bogs store carbon best

Sediments in lakes and bogs along the eastern coast of the United States show that midlatitude bodies of water have sequestered higher amounts of carbon than those at other latitudes have since the last ice age.

Byrdie Renik, an earth scientist at Columbia University, analyzed data compiled about the organic content of sediments deposited in more than 50 lakes and bogs throughout the eastern United States during the past 10,000 years.