Sentences with phrase «like peat»

On his website markcullen.com, garden expert Mark Cullen suggests combining mineral conditioner with organic matter like peat moss, compost or grass clippings to provide your plants with a nutrient - rich soil.

He also totally ignores the carbon sinks like peat bogs and soils that may release CO2 and methane as they are warmed.

So there are bodies squashed flat like peat bog men (Andra Ursuta) or posed like Renaissance figures (Tanyth Berkeley), policewomen draped like sirens on rocks (Jansson Stegner) and politicians carved out of sides of Iberian ham (Kasper Kovtiz).

If those catch fire, is it possible that like peat fires, they could burn for years?

Unilever was also a player in palm oil trader Wilmar's recent agreement to adopt a no - deforestation policy, which prohibits its suppliers from establishing plantations on lands with large amounts of carbon — like peat soils — or lands with a high conservation value (ClimateWire, Dec. 8, 2013).

It was like a peat fire spreading underground.

Not exact matches

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Be sure to test out the new lineup of services in Randi Zuckerberg's Take Care of YourSelfie program that's filled with spa treats like a warm paraffin manicure, organic seaweed peat body wrap and vitamin facial.

J.Hohn, your argument applies for manufacturing industries that use natural resources, or perhaps natural resources like wind turbines and drone peat afforestation that have room to be scaled.

I kissed my brother on the cheek and began skipping like a child up and down the concourse, screaming about how Bama's run to a three - peat was over.

The world No. 1 would join the likes of legends Annika Sorenstam, Patty Berg, Louise Suggs and Lorena Ochoa in the three - peat club should she go back - to - back - to - back on Sunday.

Like an Iron Age CSI detective, archaeologist Aldhouse - Green investigates the grisly deaths of men, women and children discovered millennia later in the peat bogs of Northern Europe.

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.

Based on the study, coconut peat (coco peat) is the best organic planting medium for hydroponics and the like.

They like most soils but not peat.

At the center of the film, like a man trying to pull a donkey out of a peat bog, stands Craig: inexpressive, uninflected and obviously tired.

He whittled ornate whistles that he rarely blew, detailed animal figurines that he abandoned in the undergrowth, and intricate talismans of celestial design, which he hid in the dimples of maple burls or inside the crevices of the twisted roots that emerged from the forest's peat like tangles of surfacing snakes.

Under the soil surface, at the end of the prop roots, huge mats of thread - like secondary roots form thick layers similar to peat moss.

Here's Rein's primer on the environmental significance of smoldering peat fires and other types of uncontrolled underground combustion (I've done a bit of editing to smooth out e-mail shorthand and the like):

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

A pile of warming and chemically volatile peat - like perma - burn that is providing more and more fuel for intense fires.

An enormous deposit of organic carbon forming a thick, peat - like under - layer.

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.

Woody plantations crops like oil palm and coconut rate much better, although their advantages are reduced when they are grown in place of carbon - rich tropical rainforests and peat lands.

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.

Composed of waterlogged organic material that has built up over millennia, even relatively small areas of peat acts like super storehouses for carbon.

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 study included carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels and producing chemicals and cement but excluded emissions from activities like deforestation and logging, forest and peat fires, the decay of biomass after burning and decomposition of organic carbon in drained peat soils.

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.

The Finnish peat companies have had activity also abroad like in Sweden, Estonia and Indonesia.

Dr. Curry; In an excellant article on the effects of rain in Pakistan as it relates to the lack of attribution to Global Climate Change, and KPO's use of marchesarosa's literary references to 800 years of Russian peat bog fires and drought, I would like to see a completion of the weather extreme trilogy by a discussion of wind.

Instead, they hang around in their peat pots soaking up the warming rays of the sun and all I need to do is occasionally rotate them so they don't become the leaning tower (s) of Pisa when they should be like the CN Tower or the Space Needle.