Sentences with phrase «peat bogs»

The prime contenders are the melting of the West Antarctic ice - sheet, the melting of the Greenland ice - sheet (whose collapse some scientists believe will now be hard to prevent), and the thawing of peat bogs in western

Uniquely spherical magnetic minerals wafted over the world by coal burning can be found from peat bogs to lake sediments and may furnish a record of this carbon combustion for future geologists.

In the same year there was a drought, and the woods and peat bogs burnt.

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).

Perhaps a rise in global temperature would cause methane to bubble out of vast expanses of warming peat bogs and tundra?

From this year, under a deal with Fisons, the giant of the peat business, control of this and other peat bogs passes to the government's conservation agency, English Nature.

The commission adds that invertebrate species lost from a worked peat bog are unlikely ever to return, and the scientific archive in the layers of peat is, of course, gone forever.

Archaeologists found specimens preserved in European peat bogs.

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.

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.

Ruddiman and McIntyre (1981a); another example: century - scale changes in carbon - dated peat bog pollen, including a clear oscillation 11,000 - 9,000 years ago, Woillard and Mook (1982); in 50 years: Flohn (1979).

Given the urgent need to protect remaining peat bogs, this is a very welcome move indeed.

They used exactly the same laboratory methods as have been developed for peat bogs in Europe.

Carbon - rich peat bogs seem to adapt well to changes in temperature, precipitation and other climate - related factors

This fossil site is a petrified peat bog preserving primitive plants and animals in exquisite detail.

When water returned to drought - affected peatlands it prompted the release of previously sequestered sulfate, increasing the overall power of peat bogs as methylmercury sources.

«Cruelly written off for years by the investment community as a wind - swept peat bog, populated only by terrorists and Guinness - addled farmers,» opined The Guardian in 1995, «Ireland is suddenly making investors take notice.»

There are plains around Hudson Bay, could these ever be arable, or are these just peat bogs?

For fun and for free, we wade out into a smelly peat bog.

The Roman historian Tacitus reported this practice in a.d. 100 or thereabouts, and the bodies of Nertha's victims have turned up, tanned to leather and nearly intact, in Danish peat bogs.

Friends of the Earth campaigner Paul de Zylva said: «New designated wildlife areas, green spaces and efforts to restore peat bogs that suck up carbon will help to protect our natural environment.»

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.

And some habitats are not properly represented among SSSIs, including peat bogs in northwest England and moorlands and meadows in the northeast.

To find out how climate change will affect one of the most precious and vulnerable ecosystems on Earth: the humble peat bog.

The report argues that less than 6 per cent of Britain's former peat bog survives intact, much less than previously supposed.

During October, the Department of the Environment gave English Nature # 270 000 to rehabilitate peat bogs during 1993.

The future of Britain's raised lowland peat bogs appears to lie in the hands of the nation's gardeners.

The problem is the forests, soils and peat bogs flooded by the reservoirs, say John Rudd and colleagues from the Canadian government's Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg in the current issue of Ambio.

Sergei Kirpotin, a botanist at Tomsk State University in Russia, and Oxford University researcher Judith Marquand say that rising temperatures are increasing the size of lakes in the frozen peat bog of western Siberia.

And because the types of vegetation found in peat bogs tend to be similar in other parts of the world, it's likely that European bogs aren't the only ones exhibiting such resiliency, he added.

While peat bogs now serve as some of the world's biggest terrestrial carbon sinks, scientists worry that environmental disturbances — the drying effects of climate change, land - clearing and drainage, wildfires and other human activities — could cause the underlying organic matter to decompose and release vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.

That's important news to scientists, given the significance of peat bogs worldwide in the global carbon cycle.

A clue comes from the fact that most of the carbon in peat bogs ends up in the form of peat, an accumulation of dead sphagnum moss.

Opponents of the scheme object on the grounds of its visual effect and the damage they say it would do to wildlife and carbon - storing peat bogs.

One body came from an Irish peat bog.

When peat bogs bigger than most countries catch fire, thee is no one there to put them out, and now way to extinguish them if we tried.

The fossils were formed in a swampy peat bog of a tropical to subtropical environment where plant tissues were preserved through rapid silicate diagenesis.

As it turns out, the cold water swamps in Ireland called peat bogs are the perfect environment for preserving organic matter and allowing it to safely ferment, improving the nutrient profile and digestibility.

Marshes, wetlands and peat bogs account for the greatest source of naturally produced methane, with unknown quantities locked in the soil of permafrost and the ocean floor that may be released as world temperatures rise.

of a prehistoric peat bog adjacent to Belmarsh Prison in Plumstead,.

Central and eastern Ireland consists of lowland plains and peat bogs with much of the land historically deforested and turned to agricultural use.