Sentences with phrase «burning peat forests»

(05/28/2014) Haze caused by burning peat forests in Indonesia kills an average of 110,000 people per year and up to 300,000 during el Niño events, while releasing hundreds of millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, warns a new report from Greenpeace.

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These vast numbers of additional humans cleared forests increasing CO2, mined and burned lots of peat which is a fossil fuel, and increased bovine herds substantially which raises methane levels.

Re: comment 22... and the suggestion that these periods (MWP) had significant man - made influence with respect to atmospheric CO2 production from forest and peat burning.

These are the truly unnatural fires as tropical wet forests (and peat fires too) are not supposed to burn but do so because of unsustainable land - uses.

Near Peterhoff the forests and peat workings burnt, and troops dug trenches and flooded the subterranean fire.

The cutting down of forests across the globe contributes a startling 20 percent of the world's annual greenhouse pollution through burning, gases released from deforested soil and smoldering peat, scientists say.

But when peat forests are drained and burned for oil palm and other agricultural plantations, they release massive amounts of greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere.

Brendan Rogers, an Earth scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center, is studying how deeply large fires burn the layers of peat on the forest floor.

The loss of permafrost is of particular concern — when permafrost melts, it releases carbon stored in the soils, and when boreal forests and peat bogs burn, they release carbon stored in the trees and peat.

In addition, they ignore natural burning of fossil fuels including forest fires, long - burning coal seams and peat; as Hans Erren noted, fossil coal is buried wood.

In the super-heated El Niño years of 2015 and 2016, there were late - summer tundra fires in Greenland, peat fires in Indonesia, and hardwood forests in the southeast United States that burned on an unprecedented scale.

The peat that sits under the forests could also burn, creating another dangerous climate feedback loop.

The peat that sits under the forests could also burn, creating another

The study included carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels and producing chemicals and cement but excluded emissions from activities like deforestation and logging, forest and peat fires, the decay of biomass after burning and decomposition of organic carbon in drained peat soils.

The interim results are the first time that a GHG emissions profile has been broken down into its «constituent elements of forest carbon stock change, non-CO2 emissions from biomass burning, CO2 and non-CO2 emissions from mineral soil, as well as biological oxidation and direct N2 O, dissolved organic carbon and CH4 emissions from disturbed peat, and CO2 and non-CO2 emissions from peat fire.»

Peat swamp in Malaysian Borneo Long considered an unproductive hindrance to growth and development, peat swamp forests in Southeast Asia have been systematically cleared, drained and burned away to make...

Because creating the plantations often means burning the tropical forest and draining the underlying peat soils, there's an initial large release of stored carbon.

The model was then used to create a number of scenarios to predict the future impacts of forest clearing and peat burning for oil palm conversion.

World heritage forests are burning; 1,000 - year - old trees and the hoary peat beneath are reduced to char.