Sentences with phrase «from peat bogs»

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.

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

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.

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.

It sounds like you are saying that the IPCC is all out of date, most climate scientists are way behind the times, and that you and a few others know that global temperatures in the past rose (and therefore can) 7 degrees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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

From this year, under a deal with Fisons, the giant of the peat business, control of this and other peat bogs passes to the government's conservation agency, English Nature.

In modern operations, however, all vegetation is stripped from the top of the bog and then milling machines remove thin layers of peat up to eight times a year.

The problem is the forests, soils and peat bogs flooded by the reservoirs, say John Rudd and colleagues from the Canadian government's Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg in the current issue of Ambio.

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.

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.

One body came from an Irish peat bog.

Isolation of a novel acidiphilic methanogen from an acidic peat bog.

Assuming the world does not get so hot that all vegetation is killed off, eventually the creation of peat bogs and the burial of trees will remove the excess CO2 from the atmosphere, but that will take perhaps thousands of years.

Removing peat from a bog releases carbon dioxide into the air which contributes to global warming.

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

Our recent story on carbon emissions from tropical forests shows possibly the most prominent example, but Arctic and many other peat bogs must also be regarded as strategic.

If, in the next 35 years, the UK increased forest cover from 12 % to 30 %, and surrendered 700,000 hectares to revert to peat bog, that would be enough to meet government ambitions to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions by 80 %.

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.

I am weary enough here of pointing out this sort of fallacy, let alone doing it over there as well, but in that case, just in the 19th century there were some 12 very severe Russian heat waves, where forest combusted and peat bogs smouldered, crops died and thousands perished from flame and hunger.

He takes the peat from the bog, or the oil from the underground oil field, or the coal from the sedimentary rocks; brings it to the surface where oxygen is plentiful, and causes it to react with oxygen there.

The permafrost of the world's largest peat bog, in West Siberia, 10 contains some 70 billion metric tons of methane — equal to about 16 percent of all the carbon added to the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion, land - use changes, and cement manufacture over the course of the past 150 years (from 1850 to 2000).7

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).

An unprecedented heat wave in Russia With smoke from burning peat - bogs clogging the muggy air, the heat in Moscow on August 6 broke the «psychological barrier» of 40 degrees Celsius, or 104 degrees Fahrenheit.

It has brought all sorts of disasters including destruction of rainforest, draining of peat bogs, eviction of subsistence farmers from their land etc etc..