Sentences with phrase «peat fires»

Greenhouse gas emissions from peat fires in Borneo and Sumatra are currently exceeding emissions from the entire U.S. economy, putting Indonesia on track to be one of the world's largest...

Air pollution from peat fires in Sumatra returned with a vengeance to Singapore and Malaysia.

Special report on smoke pollution from Indonesian peat fires by correspondent Yew Jin Lee, with 3 experts.

Tropical peat fires release phenomenal amounts of greenhouse gases.

The haze was caused by the spread of vast smoldering peat fires in Indonesia, burning below the surface for months during the El Niño climate event.

If those catch fire, is it possible that like peat fires, they could burn for years?

Although they may not seem threatening, tropical peat fires release gases into the atmosphere that contribute to pollution, human respiratory problems, and climate change.

Indonesian military personnel fighting a large peat fire near the city of Palangkaraya in the Indonesian province of Central Kalimantan on Borneo.

The seasonal variation is quite large with regard to indonesian annual peat fires (mostly Sept and Nov).

The most typical scenario for peat fires is when a fast flaming wildfire sweeps over a region burning the surface vegetation and igniting the peat if this is dry enough.

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.

In the short term, peat fires clog the air with deadly smoke and smog.

But with those devastating peat fires in Indonesia, the spotlight has turned to the planet's other peatlands, too.

Concerns about peat fires worsening climate change Mike Flannigan, director of the University of Alberta's Western Partnership for Wildland Fire Science who was not involved with the analysis, said it's important to note that wildfires are a part of northern boreal forests» ecology.

Forest, bush, scrub and peat fires produce somewhere between 40 and 250 million tons of black carbon every year.

Activists hope Jokowi will go beyond a recent announcement to control peat fires and reform land use policies, although there is some skepticism that other topics will overtake the agenda.

The big spike in 1998 was apparently associated with huge peat fires in Indonesia which also grounded airplanes for weeks due to smoke.

Smoldering peat fires creep at a speed of 1 meter per day.

These are the truly unnatural fires as tropical wet forests (and peat fires too) are not supposed to burn but do so because of unsustainable land - uses.

In May 2000, hundreds of firefighters fought a big peat fire in the region.

As it stands, the authors estimate that all sources of fire, from hut warming to ginormous peat fires in Indonesia, emit an amount of carbon dioxide equal to half that from the burning fossil fuels, the traditional villain in climate change scenarios.

Estimates indicate that tropical peat fires account for at least 25 % of the total greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation.

Biological oxidation of peatlands was generally the largest single source of emissions, although peat fires in 2006 and 2009 greatly contributed to the elevated emissions in those years.

Uncontrolled peat fires in Indonesia, exacerbated by a strong El Nino.

Here's Rein's primer on the environmental significance of smoldering peat fires and other types of uncontrolled underground combustion (I've done a bit of editing to smooth out e-mail shorthand and the like):

On October 14, which had the highest number of fires to date this year with 4,719, MODIS Terra imagery reveals smoke plumes from massive peat fires on Kalimantan.

The interim results are the first time that a GHG emissions profile has been broken down into its «constituent elements of forest carbon stock change, non-CO2 emissions from biomass burning, CO2 and non-CO2 emissions from mineral soil, as well as biological oxidation and direct N2 O, dissolved organic carbon and CH4 emissions from disturbed peat, and CO2 and non-CO2 emissions from peat fire.»

In addition, forest biomas declines, tropical peat fires (see Indonesia) boreal forest and peat declines and the rapid increase of permafrost disassociation will ensure that even if we reduce anthropogenic GHG emissions to the levels you state, we will still have a strong likelyhood of reaching 4C by 2070.

Four million litres of water are being pumped every day into a peat fire in south - west Victoria that has been smouldering at Lake Cobrico since St Patrick's Day.

A Victorian dairy farmer fears a peat fire still smouldering on his property from last month's St Patrick's Day fires will render large parts of land unusable.

These Arctic and high - latitude peat fires might not immediately affect as many people as tropical peat fires, because for the most part the fires aren't in agricultural hot spots or urban centers.

That's very characteristic of a peat fire, McCarty says.

In Southeast Asia, each El Niño cycle brings drying to thousands of islands in the Indonesian archipelago, with attendant crop failures, famine and peat fires.

It was like a peat fire spreading underground.

Step one, Skar said, is that the United States needs to acknowledge emissions coming from the peat fires are not just an Indonesian problem.

In 2015 alone, scientists estimate Indonesian peat fires were responsible for about 1.5 billion tons of carbon emissions.

When the peat fires, almost all of which are intentionally set to clear forests for palm oil plantations, began this year, the president broke with past leadership, expressed his dismay and threatened to sanction palm oil company PT Tempirai Palm Resources after he paid a surprise visit to its land concession in South Sumatra where fires are raging (ClimateWire, Sept. 14).

There's nothing wrong with spending the night beside a wood fire, or even a peat fire.

Even your longest recorded peat fire (6 weeks in 1431) pales compared to the 12 weeks duration of the current peat fires, which are still ongoing.