Sentences with phrase «on peat»

In the case before the Court, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co., the Corps issued a JD asserting jurisdiction over wetlands on a peat mine in Minnesota.

Already about 33 % of all oil palm is on peat, according to Wetlands International.

65 % of the world's tropical peatlands are located in Indonesia, and when plantations are established on peat, emissions are even worse.

Oil palm plantations grown in place of natural forest are indisputably a source of CO2 to the atmosphere, particularly if they are grown on peat.

But this is the really short version in regards to climate change: When you chop down the forests grown on peat and drain the land to depths sufficient for oil palm cultivation, the soil starts oxidizing and releasing massive amounts of CO2.

Good that this loophole's been closed: As Wetlands International reports agricultural plantations on peat soils — those in Southeast Asia for palm oil or other industrial agriculture

In fact, it is likely that despite any added wealth brought in by expanding palm oil plantations on peat soils, the negative effects of climate change will wipe it all away.

Helicopters are dropping bales containing billions of heather seeds on the peat bogs in the Midlands of England.

There are ways to grow oil palms in sustainable ways, but clearing large areas of forest growing on peat soils, further endangering wildlife (the orangutan being the most prominent example), and destroying biodiversity in general is not the way to do it.

But a study published today in the National Academy of Sciences, found that half of oil palm plantations in Indonesian Borneo were established on peat lands.

«One unexpected research result comes from one of the new studies conducted in a drained oil palm plantation on peat in Indonesia,» says Hergoualc» h.

(The NYT - owned Boston Globe ran a similar photo and story in yesterday's paper on the peat moss in the Arctic.

A new study by researchers at the University of South Carolina and University of California Los Angeles challenges that notion, and demonstrates that the effect of temperature increases on peat storage could be minor.

This indicates oxygen exposure time was the primary control on peat decomposition, while temperature was of secondary importance.

The precise long - term consequences of such thawing on peat stores in the Arctic are still unclear.

Not exact matches

It could be that we're on the verge of a three - peat!

Carrefour published its Sourcing Policy on Sustainable Palm Oil in 2014 which includes the RSPO standard and additional criteria such as protection of peat lands and high carbon stock areas.

«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.

This report provides an independent review of available scientific information and published literature on impacts of the use of tropical peat for oil palm cultivation in Southeast Asia.

The company is a signatory of the 2014 New York Declaration on Forests and has made a long - term commitment to only buy palm oil whose production doesn't lead to deforestation, fire or loss of peat land.

TheKelangais a type of marshy forest formed when silt or sand from the mountains settles in the valley over a non-porous bed of clay; plant life roots in the peat that builds up on the surface.

You can only drink so much coffee, even when it's well made and there's a fine glowing peat fire to sit beside and half a nor «westerly gale straight from Greenland kicking up big green rollers on the beaches of the peninsula.

The Warriors have won two titles in three seasons and are only a couple of plays removed from working on a four - peat.

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.

On the Women's side, Serena Williams will be looking for a three - peat (please don't sue us Pat Riley) this year and is listed as the favorite at +125.

Meanwhile, Love, 28, went on a tear himself, taking home huge checks by comfortable margins in three of four tries, including the winner's share he collected in March at the TPC (by four shots), in April at the Heritage (by four) and at his Greensboro III - peat (by six).

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.

Topsoil with peat moss is another good thing to throw on there if you want extra insurance on those plants.

A study published in August 2017 in Global Change Biology used data on where water accumulates and how it flows across the landscape to predict where peat might be hiding in tropical regions.

Jonathan Nichols, a Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory Research Professor at Columbia University who specializes in climate science, focuses his research on whether warming temperatures will cause Arctic peat bogs to decay or expand due to improved growing conditions, a question that could alter the levels of carbon the bogs have long absorbed.

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.

Removing peat, on the other hand, could mean the loss of 250 to 350 tons.

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.

Many materials can sustain a smouldering reaction, including coal, tobacco, wood, biomass fuels on the forest surface (duff) and subsurface (peat), cotton clothing and string, and polymeric foams (e.g. upholstery and bedding materials).

Two principal techniques were used to reconstruct past climates over the past 3000 years: at close intervals throughout a vertical column of peat, the researchers investigated the degree of peat decomposition, which is directly related to climate, and also examined the peat matrix to reveal the changing amounts of different plants that previously grew on the bog.

«No plant genus is more important as a carbon balance on Earth than peat mosses.

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).

Many of the wildfires occur on land that has deep reserves of peat, which is rich in carbon.

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.

«To investigate the impact such a large climatic and environmental shift had on Europe, we analysed the elemental makeup of a peat bog in the Eastern Carpathians, Romania.

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.

But on the other side of the road that bisects the moor lies a further 2500 hectares, a wasteland of bare peat that Fisons will be allowed to continue cutting until there is just half a metre of peat remaining — provided that there is a market for its product.

It could be a different story on large expanses of bare peat left behind by modern milling operations.

Much of the argument hangs on how far it is possible to rehabilitate peat workings to create new bog.

But only on condition that Fisons is allowed to continue cutting over a large area until most of the peat has gone.

Written by a commission of 25 biologists and industrialists brought together by conservation bodies, it calls on the government to revoke all planning permission for peat cutting on bogs with conservation value, and to pay compensation where due.

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).

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.

On Friday, Jokowi announced radical steps to address the annual peat land fires.

The research focuses on 56 peat bogs throughout Europe existing under different climatic and environmental conditions, a scope that could be «unprecedented» in the study of peatlands, according to Mike Waddington, a wetlands expert at McMaster University in Canada, who was not involved with the research.