Sentences with phrase «about peat fires»

Concerns about peat fires worsening climate change Mike Flannigan, director of the University of Alberta's Western Partnership for Wildland Fire Science who was not involved with the analysis, said it's important to note that wildfires are a part of northern boreal forests» ecology.

Not exact matches

In 2015 alone, scientists estimate Indonesian peat fires were responsible for about 1.5 billion tons of carbon emissions.

This is not to say we can bandy hard words about the Amazon rainforest at Brazil while we stand in a glass citadel by a peat bog that's fast becoming fuel for our fires.

Of these fires 1,104 were peat bog fires, covering a total of about 4,200 acres.