Sentences with phrase «peat bogs as»

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.

Not exact matches

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

Not just in connection with our birds, but our drinking water as well,» he added «If you end up being very dry as a blanket bog you store less water and your water quality seems to deteriorate as peat erodes and decomposes.

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).

As a result of mounting environmental concern, the Indonesian government last year placed a moratorium on any human activities that could damage the nation's peat bogs.

Most of the world's wetlands are peat, which are better known as bogs, moors, mires, and swamp forests.

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.

It's a window into history as well: bodies preserved in peat bogs and glaciers allow for a look into life thousands of years ago, as do artifacts buried with the dead.

Beginning with the 1984 discovery of the body now known as the Lindow Man in a peat bog in England, this installation in the Time Travelers series examines the anthropological information about ancient Celtic cultures gleaned by bog mummies.

A goat posing as Rodin's Thinker, a crustacean in a cast, a peat - bog woman covered in semen: Adrian Searle gives his verdict on Frieze 2011

«Re-wetting» or peat bogs is an example, as is regrowth on abandoned farmland as is happening in Puerto Rico.

RiHo08 says (28) «Since the recent heat wave and peat bog fires in Russia this summer have been used as evidence of an extreme weather event in response to global climate change, I thought a llterary reference to such events occurring periodically at least to the 12 th Century would be informative.»

So to the fires burning in Russia will have worldwide effects as the torched peat bogs whose layers consist of dead plant materials will end up releasing large quantities of carbon dioxide into the air accelerating the greenhouse effect and making the air nearly unbreathable.

Since the recent heat wave and peat bog fires in Russia this summer have been used as evidence of an extreme weather event in response to global climate change, I thought a llterary reference to such events occurring periodically at least to the 12 th Century would be informative.

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

Our recent story on carbon emissions from tropical forests shows possibly the most prominent example, but Arctic and many other peat bogs must also be regarded as strategic.

Greenpeace, which warns of an imminent «climate bomb» due to the destruction of rich forests and peat bogs that currently serve as a massive carbon sink, reports groups such as the World Wildlife Fund, Conservation International, and Flora and Fauna International have joined them in calling for an end to the conversion of forests to croplands for the production of biofuels

I am weary enough here of pointing out this sort of fallacy, let alone doing it over there as well, but in that case, just in the 19th century there were some 12 very severe Russian heat waves, where forest combusted and peat bogs smouldered, crops died and thousands perished from flame and hunger.

The strong relationship between peatland area and peat type with radiative forcing suggests a possible feedback for future changing climate, as high - latitude peatlands may experience prominent regime shifts, such as fen to bog transitions.

Palm swamps, mangroves and peat bogs throughout the tropics are disappearing rapidly as they are drained for fish farming, agriculture and infrastructure development.

But it seems predictable that many such feedbacks will appear as surprises, and some will have highly subtle mechanisms — identifying that for the global peat - bog decay took about 40 years of study, but it yielded the information that if the trend of rising CO2 held until the 2060s, peat - bog decay would emit CO2 annually equal to the entire anthro - output of 2000.

Methane recovery - Methane emissions, e.g., from oil or gas wells, coal beds, peat bogs, gas transmission pipelines, landfills, or anaerobic digesters, are captured and used as a fuel or for some other economic purpose (e.g., chemical feedstock).

«Climate change commitments» also contradicts the other things I have read and the fact that we have already crossed some thresholds such as Arctic ocean ice melting, tundra peat bog thawing and clathrate melting.

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.