Sentences with phrase «burning peat soils»

Judging by satellite and field measurements they concluded the burning peat soils released more carbon than the burning vegetation — about 4 to 5 times as much.

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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 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.

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.

There are many underlying causes for these fires, including the draining of swampy peat soils to make way for palm oil and pulpwood plantations and the use of illegal slash - and - burn practices by farmers

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.»

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.