Sentences with phrase «for peat»

According to IEA country report the Finnish subsidies for peat in 2007 - 2010 undermined the goal to reduce CO2 emissions and counteracted The European Union emissions trading scheme.

She proposed for the government to exclude carbon tax for peat in 2010.

Concerning the possibility of multiple dry months for peat forest regions on Sumatra and Borneo what is most noteworthy is a lingering El Niño state cold water SST anomaly around these two Indonesian isles (as can be seen below):

The valuable peat either being used as a base for peat compost or fuel, the small amount of trees were usually left to the side in a pile.

The coverage of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines on wetlands was restricted to peatlands drained and managed for peat extraction, conversion to flooded lands, and limited guidance for drained organic soils.

The most typical scenario for peat fires is when a fast flaming wildfire sweeps over a region burning the surface vegetation and igniting the peat if this is dry enough.

Stadskanaal is a Canal, municipality and a town in the north - eastern Netherlands.The area is known for its peat mining.

In addition, the land itself was harvested for peat, the outpost's primary construction material.

On the other hand CH4 is produced mostly indirectly, for example, in growing rice crops or in draining out water for peat lands.

Planted bogs tend to be easier to restore than bogs that have been cut for peat — which often need pumps to maintain their water levels.

Written by a commission of 25 biologists and industrialists brought together by conservation bodies, it calls on the government to revoke all planning permission for peat cutting on bogs with conservation value, and to pay compensation where due.

Moisture is the greatest natural limiting factor for peat moss, but otherwise it's no holds barred.

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

And the leafy canopy of the broadleaf trees that took up residence in place of the once - dominant black spruces blocked out the sunlight necessary for peat - producing mosses to return.

Development of a 2 - stage anaerobic digestion process for potato - processing waste to produce a substitute for peat moss, an imported non-renewable matrix for potting and garden soils.

Not exact matches

This year, he'll look for the three - peat, having won the 2014 and 2015 Formula One World Drivers» Championship.

J.Hohn, your argument applies for manufacturing industries that use natural resources, or perhaps natural resources like wind turbines and drone peat afforestation that have room to be scaled.

The third biggest export sector for the province is the energy products sector, comprised of almost 100 % peat exports.

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

This report provides an independent review of available scientific information and published literature on impacts of the use of tropical peat for oil palm cultivation in Southeast Asia.

Hart & Jones has created a new packaging design and branding for Sacred Spirits» London finshed, peated English Whisky.

For example, the combination of a peat pot and a loose mix might work well in humid areas, but could dry out too quickly in arid environments.

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 Finals.

Unfortunately Serena (pregnancy) won't be back for a three - peat, but Murray is one of favorites and should be in the mix despite battling a hip injury.

the question now becomes for Team Bartlet — can you 3 - peat?

All Faldo had to do was keep from breaking into God Save the Queen long enough to throw an eight - iron onto the fat, dry part of the green, lag up and tap in for the third major championship of his career and only the second two - peat in Masters history.

In northern latitudes, including the Arctic, peat has been entombed for centuries in permafrost.

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.

To make room for oil palm plantations and other crops, companies will raze existing trees (the source of future peat) and drain the water to dry out the soil.

The area is home to groups of indigenous people but difficult for outsiders to access, so nobody had surveyed its peat resources until recently.

Recent discoveries of hidden peatlands in Africa and South America expand the extent of peat around the world, and up the stakes for protecting those carbon stores.

If we can conserve that forest or wetlands or grasslands that are being lost and emitting CO2 into the atmosphere, we are also conserving habitat for the wildlife of the Earth; so Congo basin, Amazon rainforest, the wetlands of Southeast Asia, the peat forests of Southeast Asia and on and on — and also the Alaskan frontier.

Yesterday, Indonesia pledged to cease all deforestation activities for two years after Norway agreed to inject $ 1 billion into the effort to save the Southeast Asian country's forests and peat lands.

Uniquely spherical magnetic minerals wafted over the world by coal burning can be found from peat bogs to lake sediments and may furnish a record of this carbon combustion for future geologists.

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.

Stenøien is clearly passionate about peat moss and presents some compelling arguments for why you and I should be, too.

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.

Raging forest fires are releasing carbon that has been buried in peat for thousands of years, inching the world closer to breaching warming targets

In the study, published on October 14 in PLOS ONE, Rutgers researchers found that the density of Bornean orangutans is almost two times greater in an Indonesian peat - swamp forest — just 39 miles from similar surroundings where orangutans must survive on thousands of calories less each day for most of the year.

Through its data collection, the study expanded the circumpolar peat carbon pool estimate for permafrost regions by more than 50 percent.

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.

People have been preserving bodies of the dead for millennia, from the bog bodies found in the peat wetlands of northern Europe to the embalmed and wrapped mummies recovered from Egypt's desert sands.

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.

The rest is barren, stripped of vegetation and shaved bare by the modern peat industry to provide British gardeners with peat for their potting compost and grow bags.

The strait also allowed mammals to leave Alaska for greener pastures when prolonged periods of warmer, wetter climate allowed peat to spread, which cooled the ground and discouraged the grass, sedges and rushes from growing.

For example, B&Q, one of Britain's largest domestic gardening suppliers, refuses to stock peat taken from any SSSI and promotes a range of alternatives, notably coir, made of coconut fibre.

It concludes that the government's own guidelines for conserving endangered ecosystems, through the designation of sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs), require that peat cutting should halt.