Sentences with phrase «like peat fires»

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

It was like a peat fire spreading underground.

Not exact matches

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):

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

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.

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.

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.