Sentences with phrase «into peat»

... He went on to say that wind turbines had devastated «the very wilderness that the «green blob» claims to love, with new access tracks cut deep into peat, boosted production of carbon - intensive cement, and driven up fuel poverty, while richly rewarding landowners».

«Once these fires get underground into the peat, they don't stop burning until the seasonal rains return, and that happens later during El Niño episodes,» Field said.

They found that during the dry and transitional phases, contemporary precipitation penetrated only 1 meter into the peat, but by the onset of the moist phase it had flushed the top 2 meters.

Even when trees die, only some of the material returns to the atmosphere as CO2 and methane, while other parts become buried and eventually turn into peat and ultimately into coal.

Four million litres of water are being pumped every day into a peat fire in south - west Victoria that has been smouldering at Lake Cobrico since St Patrick's Day.

Not exact matches

«I planted habanero seeds in flats under grow lights on February 15,» he told us, «and transplanted the seedlings into four - inch peat pots on March 15.

For the hard core fans, Beam Suntory's Peated Malts of Distinction offer a deep dive into the smoky world of peated whisky.

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Once there was several millimeters of both root and stem, I transplanted them into sterile potting soil mix in peat pots.

The other vision is him 3 peating 1000 yd seasons again and riding off into the sunset with a second SB ring.

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.

Few Milan fans would've predicted they would be this optimistic going into this Saturday's match against the three - peating champions.

The researchers, led by Simon Lewis and Greta Dargie of University College London and the University of Leeds in England, trekked into the basin to extract «cores» to measure how deep the peat went in dozens of places.

If we can conserve that forest or wetlands or grasslands that are being lost and emitting CO2 into the atmosphere, we are also conserving habitat for the wildlife of the Earth; so Congo basin, Amazon rainforest, the wetlands of Southeast Asia, the peat forests of Southeast Asia and on and on — and also the Alaskan frontier.

Yesterday, Indonesia pledged to cease all deforestation activities for two years after Norway agreed to inject $ 1 billion into the effort to save the Southeast Asian country's forests and peat lands.

We don't know the consequences of global warming in detail, but we do know that a warmer world will release a lot of carbon into the atmosphere that is currently tied up in peat moss.

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.

Since they began forming 12,000 years ago in glacial hollows carved out during the last ice age, peat bogs have been squirrelling away carbon that would otherwise leak into the atmosphere.

With the backdrop of massive peat land fires sending carbon into the atmosphere and the fast - approaching U.N. climate talks, environmental advocates expect today's visit between Indonesian President Joko «Jokowi» Widodo and President Obama to touch on climate change and deforestation challenges.

Annual smoke and haze, created when the nation's peat lands are burned and cleared for agricultural use, create a regional health threat and send significant carbon into the atmosphere.

Scientists believe the world's peat bogs can contain up to 500 billion metric tons of carbon — that's about 50 times more carbon than is emitted into the atmosphere each year by the burning of fossil fuels.

They include sea level rise, which is pushing saltwater into freshwater marshes and causing their peat - rich soils to collapse, and drought caused in part by the diversion of freshwater into South Florida's booming metro areas.

If humans continue to convert the gigantic biomass of tropical forests and peat bogs into carbon in the sky, it may not matter if you install solar panels on your home, or stop flying.

Moistened peat moss dug into the soil increases acid and adds organic matter.

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.

Also, thanks to # 8, John Byatt, for the link to the RealClimate post from 2010 on methane.I now remember reading that now that I just read it again.It does not comfort me because it says that the methane can change into co2.Also, it does not comfort me that a bigger problem is the peat moss methane escaping.Both sources of potential methane release worry me.Now that you all know the link to the sciencedaily story, what do you think?

So to the fires burning in Russia will have worldwide effects as the torched peat bogs whose layers consist of dead plant materials will end up releasing large quantities of carbon dioxide into the air accelerating the greenhouse effect and making the air nearly unbreathable.

Projected changes in climate, including an increase of droughts and less frequent, more intense rain events, imply that this phenomenon may make peat bogs into larger sources of methylmercury to downstream water resources and ecosystems.

I believe that the formation of peat deposits is very well understood and involves the dead wood falling into an anaerobic (no oxygen) environment, (eg stagnant water) so that the general equation C+O 2 — > CO2 can not take place.

(05/28/2014) Haze caused by burning peat forests in Indonesia kills an average of 110,000 people per year and up to 300,000 during el Niño events, while releasing hundreds of millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, warns a new report from Greenpeace.

But when peat forests are drained and burned for oil palm and other agricultural plantations, they release massive amounts of greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere.

Several metres of peat or other organic sediments lock CO2 into the system under anaerobic regimes until humans decide to unlock it.

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

Pekanbaru, Sumatra - Turning just one Sumatran province's forests and peat swamps into pulpwood and palm oil plantations is generating more annual greenhouse gas emissions than the Netherlands and rapidly driving the province's elephants into extinction, a new study by WWF and partners has found.

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.

15 Fossil Fuels: Coal Decaying plant matter, when buried under sediment, eventually forms peat (very moist, compact) Further compaction, over time, forces the moisture out of the peat — forms a layer of lignite More compression (compaction), and more moisture is removed, forming a layer of soft coal (bituminous) Higher pressure and higher temperatures cause the bituminous coal to metamorphose into hard coal (anthracite) Coal

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.»

Initially the peat is converted into lignite or «brown coal» - these are coal - types with low organic maturity.

Into the trees and peat bogs.

When peat swamps are drained, converted, and burned, large quantities of stored carbon are released into the atmosphere.

When peat that has been frozen for thousands of years thaws, it still contains viable populations of methanotrophic bacteria [Rivkina et al., 2004] that begin to convert the peat into CO2 and CH4.