Sentences with phrase «for peat bogs»

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

The vegetation at the surface of the bogs is important for maintaining the health of the ecosystem and protecting the peat that lies beneath from decomposing, he said.

This is not to say we can bandy hard words about the Amazon rainforest at Brazil while we stand in a glass citadel by a peat bog that's fast becoming fuel for our fires.

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.

Prehistoric pollen taken from the bottom of lakes and peat bogs is considered the best evidence we have for what primeval Europe really looked like, and Vera points out that hazel and oak predominate in the pollen record.

As it turns out, the cold water swamps in Ireland called peat bogs are the perfect environment for preserving organic matter and allowing it to safely ferment, improving the nutrient profile and digestibility.

Marshes, wetlands and peat bogs account for the greatest source of naturally produced methane, with unknown quantities locked in the soil of permafrost and the ocean floor that may be released as world temperatures rise.

It's a window into history as well: bodies preserved in peat bogs and glaciers allow for a look into life thousands of years ago, as do artifacts buried with the dead.

Fergus and his uncle find a girl's body buried in a peat bog at the start of this novel, told in parallel narratives, of two young people who sacrifice themselves for the greater good.

There are many sources for oxides of nitrogen: the ocean, peat bogs, microbial denitrification in soils, etc..

1 Positive 1.1 Carbon cycle feedbacks 1.1.1 Arctic methane release 1.1.1.1 Methane release from melting permafrost peat bogs 1.1.1.2 Methane release from hydrates 1.1.2 Abrupt increases in atmospheric methane 1.1.3 Decomposition 1.1.4 Peat decomposition 1.1.5 Rainforest drying 1.1.6 Forest fires 1.1.7 Desertification 1.1.8 CO2 in the oceans 1.1.9 Modelling results 1.1.9.1 Implications for climate policy 1.2 Cloud feedback 1.3 Gas release 1.4 Ice - albedo feedback 1.5 Water vapor feedback 2 Negative 2.1 Carbon cycle 2.1.1 Le Chatelier's principle 2.1.2 Chemical weathering 2.1.3 Net Primary Productivity 2.2 Lapse rate 2.3 Blackbody radiation

Greenpeace, which warns of an imminent «climate bomb» due to the destruction of rich forests and peat bogs that currently serve as a massive carbon sink, reports groups such as the World Wildlife Fund, Conservation International, and Flora and Fauna International have joined them in calling for an end to the conversion of forests to croplands for the production of biofuels

Kalevansuo peat records revealed a general development from fen to bog, typical for the southern boreal zone, but the timing of ombrotrophication varied in different parts of the peatland.

The strong relationship between peatland area and peat type with radiative forcing suggests a possible feedback for future changing climate, as high - latitude peatlands may experience prominent regime shifts, such as fen to bog transitions.

Palm swamps, mangroves and peat bogs throughout the tropics are disappearing rapidly as they are drained for fish farming, agriculture and infrastructure development.

But it seems predictable that many such feedbacks will appear as surprises, and some will have highly subtle mechanisms — identifying that for the global peat - bog decay took about 40 years of study, but it yielded the information that if the trend of rising CO2 held until the 2060s, peat - bog decay would emit CO2 annually equal to the entire anthro - output of 2000.

Reforestry, peat bog restoration, the education and especially health / reproduction for women (together make number ONE in effective reduction of carbon / methane)!

Methane recovery - Methane emissions, e.g., from oil or gas wells, coal beds, peat bogs, gas transmission pipelines, landfills, or anaerobic digesters, are captured and used as a fuel or for some other economic purpose (e.g., chemical feedstock).

Ordinarily and historically, peat bogs are natural storages for C02 and are an important aspect of the fight against climate change