Sentences with phrase «as peat»

However, these models do not yet include many processes and reservoirs that may be important, such as peat, buried carbon in permafrost soils, wild fires, ocean eddies and the response of marine ecosystems to ocean acidification.

The carbon cycle underwrites all life: plants and microbes withdraw carbon from the atmosphere and some of it gets stored in the soils, preserved as peat, or locked away as rock, or frozen as ice to be returned to the planetary system in all sorts of ways,

It can be held in the soil beneath the forest as peat.

Methane hydrates — methane molecules trapped in frozen water molecule cages in tundra and on continental shelves — and organic matter such as peat locked in frozen soils (permafrost) are likely mechanisms in the past hyperthermals, and they provide another climate feedback with the potential to amplify global warming if large scale thawing occurs [209]--[210].

These are easy to obtain materials such as peat moss or coconut fiber blocks.

There are plenty of fossil fuels and pseudo-fossil sources such as peat that have such low efficiency, that most of the carbon may be burned as process or waste heat.

When these trees are cut down or they burn, the peat soils underneath are exposed, releasing carbon dioxide as the peat oxidizes and decomposes.

The probability of accelerated temperature increases is very high, especially due to feedback loops from events such as peat and tundra melting in boreal forests.

A strong acidic polymer (pH1) extracted from organic substances such as peat.

Modern mechanised methods of harvesting peat, known as peat milling, are far more destructive that old methods of cutting, says the commission.

Fossil fuels — the hydrocarbons known as peat, coal, oil, and natural gas — are formed from the constituents of deeply buried and preserved organic matter.

But as the peat is eroded further, more of the track should be revealed.

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.

The settings of these two blazes couldn't have been more different, but scientists suspect the two had something important in common: plenty of decaying organic matter known as peat.

Not exact matches

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Had I been in the Yukon when creating these, I would've used one of my dad's amazing and peat Scotches as the rich flavour is so beautiful with dark chocolate.

Carrefour published its Sourcing Policy on Sustainable Palm Oil in 2014 which includes the RSPO standard and additional criteria such as protection of peat lands and high carbon stock areas.

The Famous Grouse Smoky Black delivers the same distinctive rich and smoky flavour as The Black Grouse, achieved by introducing more peated malts into the blend.

Described as having aromas of butterscotch and toffee apples with flavours of candy floss and a gentle touch of peat smoke, typical of the Cù Bòcan range, there is only 11,400 bottles available worldwide.

These delicate tasting Whiskies modeled after the scotch tradition — double distilling malted and / or peated barley before it's aged in wood barrels — have been shaped by three men commonly referred to as Founding Fathers of Japanese Whisky: Shinjiro Torii of Suntory, Masataka Taketsuru of Nikka and Kiichiro Iwai of Mars.

Getting a big W to spearhead true momentum as they begin their quest at getting All Sports Series» first ever 3 - peat.

App State was about to three - peat as its subdivision's national champ.

As they are going for their 3 - peat..

Most notably, the 2002 Western Conference Finals featuring the Kings and Los Angeles Lakers will go down in infamy thanks to the conspiracy theories that suggest the NBA rigged the series for the Lakers as they attempted to three - peat as champions.

On the Women's side, Serena Williams will be looking for a three - peat (please don't sue us Pat Riley) this year and is listed as the favorite at +125.

As long as Hibbert is healthy, Indiana believes it has a legitimate shot at ending the Heat's bid for a three - peat before it reaches the NBA FinalAs long as Hibbert is healthy, Indiana believes it has a legitimate shot at ending the Heat's bid for a three - peat before it reaches the NBA Finalas Hibbert is healthy, Indiana believes it has a legitimate shot at ending the Heat's bid for a three - peat before it reaches the NBA Finals.

These Arctic and high - latitude peat fires might not immediately affect as many people as tropical peat fires, because for the most part the fires aren't in agricultural hot spots or urban centers.

It's not as simple as prohibiting crops in peat - rich areas, though.

This map points out countries known to have peatlands (gray), as of 2017, and the locations of those peat - filled lands (green).

If rainfall becomes more irregular, as it's predicted to in the future, «then with the same average rainfall, the peatland can support less peat,» Cobb says.

The peat - rich soil has value as well.

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.

His interest is in peat wetlands, which contain as much CO2 as can be found in the entire atmosphere.

They used exactly the same laboratory methods as have been developed for peat bogs in Europe.

For example, long boggy brown peat cores that record millennia of deposits suddenly turn black as night at their tops from the recent addition of sooty carbon.

«No plant genus is more important as a carbon balance on Earth than peat mosses.

Other researchers uncovered clues, such as plant fossils from peat bogs, that suggest mean annual temperatures on Canada's now - frozen Ellesmere Island near Greenland were as much as 18 degrees higher than today (SN: 4/6/13, p. 9).

The low apparent sensitivity of peat decomposition to warming has important implications for the future of the peatlands, as warming is unlikely to result in widespread carbon loss.

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.

Today, some 1.75 million cubic metres of peat are scraped out every year for use as a growing medium in nurseries and gardens.

«It would be wrong,» says the commission, «to justify exploitation of peat in the UK because there was «plenty more peatland in Russia», just as it would be wrong to justify felling a Tasmanian rainforest because there were abundant forests in Scandinavia.»

The criticism voiced by the peat commission — which includes such figures as Derek Ratcliffe, former chief scientist at the Nature Conservancy Council, the forerunner of English Nature — is backed by the World Wide Fund for Nature.

Indonesia's sprawling tropical forests and peat soils act as a massive carbon storage sink but have been heavily deforested and degraded in recent years, primarily by palm oil companies and the pulp - paper giants Asian Pulp and Paper and Asia Pacific Resources International Ltd..

As a result of mounting environmental concern, the Indonesian government last year placed a moratorium on any human activities that could damage the nation's peat bogs.

In 2015 — 2016, «a bit of rain at just the right moment prevented the Southeast Asian peat forest fires from spreading as widely as they did two decades ago,» says climate scientist Guido van der Werf at Vrije University Amsterdam.

Methane is a crouching tiger in the carbon cycle, with potentially enough available as hydrates and from peats to really clobber the Earth's heat budget.

Our ensemble fire weather season length metric captured important wildfire events throughout Eurasia such as the Indonesian fires of 1997 — 98 where peat fires, following an El Niño - induced drought, released carbon equivalent to 13 — 40 % of the global fossil fuel emissions from only 1.4 % of the global vegetated land area (Fig. 4, 1997 — 1998) 46 and the heatwave over Western Russia in 2010 (Fig. 4, 2010) that led to its worst fire season in recorded history and triggered extreme air pollution in Moscow51.

Of course dryer peat is likely to catch fire, as fires in the rapidly warming Arctic have been rampant so far this century.

Most of the world's wetlands are peat, which are better known as bogs, moors, mires, and swamp forests.

thanks again paul and as an aside, apart from ray peat believing that lots of fructose has beneficial effects, your PHD diet and his dietary ideas are actually very similar and complimentary from my initial research.