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

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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