Sentences with phrase «from peat»

It's not too difficult to imagine 60 Gton C over 100 years from peat, either.

Abrupt change comes — «if», from sea sediments, irreversible thaw from the peat bog.

Emissions of CO2 were highest from peat incubated in the localized permafrost feature, suggesting that slow organic matter accumulation rates are due, at least in part, to rapid decomposition in surface permafrost peat.

It sounds like you are saying that the IPCC is all out of date, most climate scientists are way behind the times, and that you and a few others know that global temperatures in the past rose (and therefore can) 7 degrees in a decade, proven in part with, among other things, 3 - 5 million year old tree rings uncovered from a peat bog in the Canadian Arctic.

Air pollution from peat fires in Sumatra returned with a vengeance to Singapore and Malaysia.

This omission reduces the incentive to switch from peat and coal to woody biomass.

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.»

While oil palm can be grown sustainably, this is rarely the case in Indonesia, where Wetlands International estimates that production of one metric ton of palm oil will result in an average emission of 20 tons of carbon dioxide from peat decomposition alone, not including emissions resulting from production or combustion.

Tropical deforestation releases more than 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere every year, though in some years, like the 1997 - 1998 el Nino year when fires released some 2 billion tons of carbon from peat swamps alone in Indonesia, emissions are more than twice that.

The researchers found that these effects are linked to increased methane emissions from peat with higher bulk densities.

The Scottish study you mention has to do with emissions from peat bogs that and would like to the study find that wind power doesn't result in substantially reduced emissions.

Greenhouse gas emissions from peat fires in Borneo and Sumatra are currently exceeding emissions from the entire U.S. economy, putting Indonesia on track to be one of the world's largest...

Here we present a decadal - resolution record of storminess covering the Late Holocene, based on a 4 - m - long core taken from the peat bog of Cors Fochno in mid-Wales, UK.

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

Substantial N2O emissions from peat decomposition and N fertilization in an oil palm plantation exacerbated by hotspots

«Combined with a literature review, the results showed that high N2O emissions from peat decomposition in the tropics tend to be common; which is in contrast with most recent IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] emission factors,» she says.

This pledge is significant because merely draining peatlands is a major source of carbon emissions from peat oxidation as well as ancient carbon carried away as the water table drops.

The sun, like a red hot cinder, glowed through the clouds of smoke from the peat bogs.

The amount of carbon released from peat and forest fires in Indonesia during 1997.

«Common charcoal is made from peat, coal, wood, coconut shell, or petroleum.

The amount of carbon released from peat and forest fires in Indonesia during 1997.

Step one, Skar said, is that the United States needs to acknowledge emissions coming from the peat fires are not just an Indonesian problem.

The bright green fluorescence which his hair gives off is due to the keratin in the hair reacting with acid from the peat he was preserved in, according to Gerald Smith of the Industrial Research Unit at Lower Hutt in New Zealand.

Other researchers uncovered clues, such as plant fossils from peat bogs, that suggest mean annual temperatures on Canada's now - frozen Ellesmere Island near Greenland were as much as 18 degrees higher than today (SN: 4/6/13, p. 9).

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.

When scientists dated a seed recovered from a peat bog in China, they discovered it was two thousand years old.

Methane is a crouching tiger in the carbon cycle, with potentially enough available as hydrates and from peats to really clobber the Earth's heat budget.

Methane is a crouching tiger in the carbon cycle, with potentially enough available as hydrates and from peats to really clobber the Earth's heat budget.

Not exact matches

Beam Suntory has announced the release of a four piece gift - box with peated whiskies from its portfolio of distilleries

TheKelangais a type of marshy forest formed when silt or sand from the mountains settles in the valley over a non-porous bed of clay; plant life roots in the peat that builds up on the surface.

Brewed and infused with «curiously odd» ingredients, Dr. Jekyll's Beer Attack exhilarates the senses through its complex flavors and aroma by combining a touch of cinnamon with a mildly sweet, nuttiness along with a hint of smokiness from imported peated malt.

It is one of only a few distilleries that still uses traditional malting floors and dries and infuses its own malt with the thick blue smoke from old peat - fired kilns.

Born from the streams and blue peat smoke of Islay, Laphroaig is a Single Malt Scotch Whisky with a distinct taste and story in every bottle.

You can only drink so much coffee, even when it's well made and there's a fine glowing peat fire to sit beside and half a nor «westerly gale straight from Greenland kicking up big green rollers on the beaches of the peninsula.

The Warriors have won two titles in three seasons and are only a couple of plays removed from working on a four - peat.

Woods, however, holds the distinction of being the only golfer to accomplish the four - peat twice — at the Arnold Palmer Invitational from 2000 through 2003, and at the Farmers Insurance Open between 2005 and 2008.

In O'Neal's most dominant seasons (he was Finals MVP every year during the Lakers» three - peat from 2000 through» 02) he would attempt at least one field goal every 2.0 minutes of playing time; last year that figure was one shot every 2.6 minutes.

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.

From there, the researchers estimated that the carbon stored in Central Congo Basin's peat is equivalent to about 20 years of fossil fuel emissions from the United States, at current raFrom there, the researchers estimated that the carbon stored in Central Congo Basin's peat is equivalent to about 20 years of fossil fuel emissions from the United States, at current rafrom the United States, at current rates.

The team of researchers, from the Universities of Gloucestershire, Aberdeen and Plymouth, conducted studies on past climate through detailed laboratory examination of peat from a bog near Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego.

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.

«These include the sharp mud - over-peat contacts that are laterally continuous over 5 kilometers, changes in fossil foraminifera assemblages across the buried peat contacts, long - lasting submergence also derived from fossil foraminifera records, and radiocarbon ages of plant macrofossils taken from buried peat deposits that are consistent with other southern Cascadia earthquake chronologies derived from buried peat and tsunami deposits.»

The highly detailed record of the past 20,000 years comes from analyses of fossilised tree pollen from lake and peat sediments.

Animals including the Arthropleura — a nearly 10 - foot - long relative of the centipede — splashed through grass - free, shallow waters, their feet skimming the spongy peat made from decomposing foliage.

To start, they removed the coal that lay just below the surface; once peat lining the forest floor, it was transformed by the intense heat of Earth's interior and pressure from layers of ash.

The scientists warn that climate change threatens these habitats, not only from rising temperatures increasing peat decomposition, but also via altered rainfall patterns — with summer droughts drastically affecting the blanket bog hydrology.

Fossil fuels — the hydrocarbons known as peat, coal, oil, and natural gas — are formed from the constituents of deeply buried and preserved organic matter.

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.

With huge stores of carbon in peat, the fear is that rising global temperatures could cause the release of massive amounts of CO2 from the peatlands into the atmosphere — essentially creating a greenhouse gas feedback loop.

A peat bog in Romania provides a new insight into our knowledge of when the Sahara began to transform from grassland into the desert we know today, and the impact this had on dust deposition within Eastern Europe.