Sentences with phrase «from peat swamps»

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.

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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.

The researchers from the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water & Environment (DPIPWE) and the University of Tasmania made the discovery during a survey of peat - bound karstic wetlands — an unusual type of swamp which occurs only in peaty soils underlain by limestone and similar carbonate rocks.

10 % of global CO2 emissions result from swamp destruction December 10, 2007 More than 10 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions result from the degradation and destruction of peat swamps, reports the first comprehensive global assessment on the links between peatland degradation and climate change.

Their track record is mixed, and critics argue that the standards they set are «low and ambiguous», not binding, and that market transformation becomes too industry - friendly or, in the case of Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil, are not even worthy of being called «sustainable» as they do not effectively protect secondary areas and peat swamps from the risk of deforestation.