Sentences with phrase «deep peat»

The area was also protected under an earlier presidential decree on conversion of deep peat.

Coastal mangrove forests can contain much more carbon per unit area than their terrestrial counterparts: This coastal «blue» carbon has been deposited on every tide over thousands of years and is stored in deep peat soils.

Carbon emissions are likely to increase, the study predicted, as most future forest clearance is planned for areas with deep peat soils.

The United Kingdom included emissions from peat extraction, drainage of wetlands and deep peat in their land - use change and forestry estimate.

The researchers, led by Simon Lewis and Greta Dargie of University College London and the University of Leeds in England, trekked into the basin to extract «cores» to measure how deep the peat went in dozens of places.

Not exact matches

For the hard core fans, Beam Suntory's Peated Malts of Distinction offer a deep dive into the smoky world of peated whisky.

I have 3 that are growing in a pot about 14» by 16» deep with a mixture of peat moss and Miracle Grow potting soil.

Many of the wildfires occur on land that has deep reserves of peat, which is rich in carbon.

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.

These cayes include deep, clear lagoons encircled by steep, lush coral ridges, with coral reef, mangrove — root, and peat substrates, thickly overgrown by layers of brilliantly colored organisms, including sponges, tunicates, and marine plants.

It creates a peat - like pile, in most places scores of feet deep, that can burn for extended periods and re-ignite long extinguished surface fires.

Two main geomorphological forms are commonly found in continuous permafrost regions of Eastern Canada: (i) small, shallow, narrow runnel ponds formed over melting ice wedges where peat slumping occurs, and (ii) more stable, slightly larger and deeper, polygonal ponds, which are naturally linked to the active layer freeze - thaw cycles, and can be colonized by aquatic plants and microbial mats (Fig. 1).

does the 15ppm consider CO2 contributed from deforestation (which as this becomes more extensive against the growing population, the atmosphere breaks well beyond saturation point as trees can not convert CO2 fast enough to combat the production), the burning of peat, the likely disturbances and resulting CO2 emitted from deep sea drilling (i.e. decomposed life forms from the ocean bed reaching the atmosphere) the CO2 deposits from extensive farming, the population of all mammals exhaling CO2, chemical productions with CO2 bi-products and all other man related processes that give off CO2?

Indonesian forests are home to roughly 60 percent of the world's tropical peatlands, where decayed vegetation or organic matter has accumulated in the soil layers and created peat deposits that can be up to 10 meters deep.

... He went on to say that wind turbines had devastated «the very wilderness that the «green blob» claims to love, with new access tracks cut deep into peat, boosted production of carbon - intensive cement, and driven up fuel poverty, while richly rewarding landowners».

I refer to the carbon held in undersea methane hydrate deposits, the methane held in tundral permafrost, the organic carbon held in broad scale peat deposits, the organic carbon held in deep sea ooze deposits, the inorganic carbon held in outcropping karstic limestones, calcretes etc., etc..

You'd need some quite extensive, and deep, peat bogs.