Mangrove forests on the Yucatan Peninsula store record amounts of carbon
The trees stockpile up to about 2,800 metric tons of carbon per hectare in the soil
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Mangrove trees surround Cristalino Cenote (pictured), a water-filled sinkhole on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Soils beneath mangrove-ringed cenotes have some of the highest carbon concentrations in the world.
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