Sentences with phrase «on peat soils»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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).

North Carolina's Albemarle - Pamlico peninsula is a patchwork of peat soils called pocosins (Algonquin for «swamp on a hill»), thick deposits of decomposed plant matter that store high amounts of carbon.

Landowners who restore peat soils can use this methodology to document and sell carbon credits on the voluntary carbon market.

The coverage of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines on wetlands was restricted to peatlands drained and managed for peat extraction, conversion to flooded lands, and limited guidance for drained organic soils.

Researchers led by Carolina Voigt from the University of Eastern Finland report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they experimented with what they call mesocosms of peaty soils from the Arctic: in a compromise between the microcosm of a laboratory experiment and open field trials on the tundra, the scientists collected 16 columns of peat, some topped with natural vegetation, from Finnish Lapland.

Wind farms are typically built on upland sites, where peat soil is common.

Methane hydrates — methane molecules trapped in frozen water molecule cages in tundra and on continental shelves — and organic matter such as peat locked in frozen soils (permafrost) are likely mechanisms in the past hyperthermals, and they provide another climate feedback with the potential to amplify global warming if large scale thawing occurs [209]--[210].

This includes carbon on land in vegetation, soils, peat and freshwater and in the atmosphere, ocean and surface ocean sediments.

Coastal mangrove forests can contain much more carbon per unit area than their terrestrial counterparts: This coastal «blue» carbon has been deposited on every tide over thousands of years and is stored in deep peat soils.

Because when you chop down the trees in these rainforests growing on peaty soils massive amounts of greenhouse gas emissions stored in the peat get released.

Temperatures were first reconstructed using a novel approach based on branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers present in the membranes of anaerobic soil bacteria abundant in peat bogs (Weijers et al., 2007).

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.

Most of the hard work raising vegetables and flowers from seeds comes in the beginning when you have a million little peat pots, seed packets, bags of seed - starting soil mix and Popsicle sticks spread out on the kitchen table.

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.