Sentences with phrase «dry peat»

Dry peat emits carbon dioxide, and is vulnerable to large wild fires that also emit carbon dioxide.

The heat content of air - dried peat (about 50 percent moisture) is about 9 million Btu per ton.

Not exact matches

In «The Hand with the Knife,» a beleaguered sister, mistreated by mother and brothers, has to dig peat in the dry heath.

Brush off any peat moss with your fingers or a damp paper towel, or rinse the mushrooms briefly under running water and pat dry with a paper towel.

For example, the combination of a peat pot and a loose mix might work well in humid areas, but could dry out too quickly in arid environments.

It is one of only a few distilleries that still uses traditional malting floors and dries and infuses its own malt with the thick blue smoke from old peat - fired kilns.

All Faldo had to do was keep from breaking into God Save the Queen long enough to throw an eight - iron onto the fat, dry part of the green, lag up and tap in for the third major championship of his career and only the second two - peat in Masters history.

But changes in land use — draining the water to plant acres of crops that demand drier soil, a common practice in tropical regions, or building a road through an area — can dry out the peat.

To make room for oil palm plantations and other crops, companies will raze existing trees (the source of future peat) and drain the water to dry out the soil.

So when it comes to fire risk, peat - heavy landscapes haven't historically gotten the same attention as, say, the dry pine forests of the western United States.

Not just in connection with our birds, but our drinking water as well,» he added «If you end up being very dry as a blanket bog you store less water and your water quality seems to deteriorate as peat erodes and decomposes.

In Southeast Asia, each El Niño cycle brings drying to thousands of islands in the Indonesian archipelago, with attendant crop failures, famine and peat fires.

The haze is caused by forest clearing in Indonesia during the annual dry season, particularly when fires are set to clear undergrowth which then spark fires in layers of peat.

In deforested areas, layers of peat — sometimes dozens of meters deep — become flammable as they dry out, which is sometimes exacerbated by deliberate draining in order to make them more suitable for palm oil and timber plantations.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

In 2002 and every year since, the Speyside distillery has set aside a week each year to using 100 - percent Highland peat for barley drying.

In Hot dry conditions in Indonesia during the period led to an increase in fires, including a large peat fire that burned huge amounts of stored carbon.

The most typical scenario for peat fires is when a fast flaming wildfire sweeps over a region burning the surface vegetation and igniting the peat if this is dry enough.

The reason is that the peat bog dries and shrinks.

These warming regimes will also drive rapid emissions from tropical peat, through tropical rainforest drying and through heat stresses on boreal forests.

They found that during the dry and transitional phases, contemporary precipitation penetrated only 1 meter into the peat, but by the onset of the moist phase it had flushed the top 2 meters.

Dense with peat moss, now dried out, it is a perfect storm for woodland fires.

Drought and extreme heat dried vegetation and peat bogs, creating dangerous fire conditions.

1 Positive 1.1 Carbon cycle feedbacks 1.1.1 Arctic methane release 1.1.1.1 Methane release from melting permafrost peat bogs 1.1.1.2 Methane release from hydrates 1.1.2 Abrupt increases in atmospheric methane 1.1.3 Decomposition 1.1.4 Peat decomposition 1.1.5 Rainforest drying 1.1.6 Forest fires 1.1.7 Desertification 1.1.8 CO2 in the oceans 1.1.9 Modelling results 1.1.9.1 Implications for climate policy 1.2 Cloud feedback 1.3 Gas release 1.4 Ice - albedo feedback 1.5 Water vapor feedback 2 Negative 2.1 Carbon cycle 2.1.1 Le Chatelier's principle 2.1.2 Chemical weathering 2.1.3 Net Primary Productivity 2.2 Lapse rate 2.3 Blackbody radiation

Coal deposits are compressed peat swamps that began as dry - land tropical forests.

«When you get below this threshold, the peat has enough time to dry out under the very hot equatorial conditions,» Field said.

Concerning the possibility of multiple dry months for peat forest regions on Sumatra and Borneo what is most noteworthy is a lingering El Niño state cold water SST anomaly around these two Indonesian isles (as can be seen below):

Organizers of the Asian Games are wary of the event being hit by haze from brush and peat fires in Sumatra.The government has called on pulpwood and oil palm companies to take steps to prevent fires during this year's dry season.