Sentences with phrase «for peat fires»
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.
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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.
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
The researchers also found that certification did not affect fire occurrence in these plantations or the amount of carbon - rich peat swamp forests cleared and drained for oil palm.
In 2015 alone, scientists estimate Indonesian peat fires were responsible for about 1.5 billion tons of carbon emissions.
When the peat fires, almost all of which are intentionally set to clear forests for palm oil plantations, began this year, the president broke with past leadership, expressed his dismay and threatened to sanction palm oil company PT Tempirai Palm Resources after he paid a surprise visit to its land concession in South Sumatra where fires are raging (ClimateWire, Sept. 14).
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.
If those catch fire, is it possible that like peat fires, they could burn for years?
The big spike in 1998 was apparently associated with huge peat fires in Indonesia which also grounded airplanes for weeks due to smoke.
The haze was caused by the spread of vast smoldering peat fires in Indonesia, burning below the surface for months during the El Niño climate event.
The report shows how increasing demand for deforestation - and peat - free palm oil — also important to slow climate change and protect endangered species — can help reduce the incidence of landscape fires and their devastating health impacts.
Dense with peat moss, now dried out, it is a perfect storm for woodland fires.
The fire is likely to be fueled by peat, a dark rich soil that has been made more vulnerable to catching fire because the permafrost — soil that is frozen for more than two years — is melting faster than usual.
A pile of warming and chemically volatile peat - like perma - burn that is providing more and more fuel for intense fires.
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.
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
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
• Land Use, Land - Use Change, and Forestry (17 % of 2004 global greenhouse gas emissions)-- Greenhouse gas emissions from this sector primarily include carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from deforestation, land clearing for agriculture, and fires or decay of peat soils.
Emissions from fires and peat mining (for horticulture and fuel) amount to another 700,000 million tons per year.
In 2015, after months of forest fires and choking pollution levels, the Indonesian government identified dozens of companies responsible for millions of hectares of torched forest and peat land.