Sentences with phrase «peat bogs burnt»

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

The loss of permafrost is of particular concern — when permafrost melts, it releases carbon stored in the soils, and when boreal forests and peat bogs burn, they release carbon stored in the trees and peat.

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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.

Scientists believe the world's peat bogs can contain up to 500 billion metric tons of carbon — that's about 50 times more carbon than is emitted into the atmosphere each year by the burning of fossil fuels.

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.

Yesterday, the burning woods and peat bogs threatened the ammunitiion stores of the artillery range and even Okhtensk gunpowder factory.

An unprecedented heat wave in Russia With smoke from burning peat - bogs clogging the muggy air, the heat in Moscow on August 6 broke the «psychological barrier» of 40 degrees Celsius, or 104 degrees Fahrenheit.

What is the current status of global CO2 emissions and what is being done about the burning peat bogs?