Sentences with phrase «peat forest fires»

As one tonne of carbon equates to 3.67 tonnes of CO2, the 1997 Indonesian peat forest fires emitted between 2.97 and 9.43 billion tonnes of CO2.

In 2015 — 2016, «a bit of rain at just the right moment prevented the Southeast Asian peat forest fires from spreading as widely as they did two decades ago,» says climate scientist Guido van der Werf at Vrije University Amsterdam.

Not exact matches

The company is a signatory of the 2014 New York Declaration on Forests and has made a long - term commitment to only buy palm oil whose production doesn't lead to deforestation, fire or loss of peat land.

So when it comes to fire risk, peat - heavy landscapes haven't historically gotten the same attention as, say, the dry pine forests of the western United States.

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.

Raging forest fires are releasing carbon that has been buried in peat for thousands of years, inching the world closer to breaching warming targets

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

The haze is caused by forest clearing in Indonesia during the annual dry season, particularly when fires are set to clear undergrowth which then spark fires in layers of peat.

The researchers also found that certification did not affect fire occurrence in these plantations or the amount of carbon - rich peat swamp forests cleared and drained for oil palm.

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).

The amount of carbon released from peat and forest fires in Indonesia during 1997.

The amount of carbon released from peat and forest fires in Indonesia during 1997.

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.

The fires sweeping parched, baked peat bogs and forests in western Russia have raised a vast smoke pall captured by NASA satellites.

Near Peterhoff the forests and peat workings burnt, and troops dug trenches and flooded the subterranean fire.

Similarly CIFOR research suggests that the rewetting of drained peat — a measure to prevent carbon emissions released from forest fires and peat degradation - could increase levels of methane from the soil.

Brendan Rogers, an Earth scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center, is studying how deeply large fires burn the layers of peat on the forest floor.

Forest loss and degradation and peat decomposition and fires are behind average annual carbon emissions equivalent to 122 percent of the Netherlands total annual emissions, 58 percent of Australia's annual emissions, 39 percent of annual UK emissions and 26 percent of annual German emissions.

In addition, they ignore natural burning of fossil fuels including forest fires, long - burning coal seams and peat; as Hans Erren noted, fossil coal is buried wood.

In the super-heated El Niño years of 2015 and 2016, there were late - summer tundra fires in Greenland, peat fires in Indonesia, and hardwood forests in the southeast United States that burned on an unprecedented scale.

The restoration project is mandated by the Indonesian government under various policies, issued in the wake of the 2015 fires, to protect the carbon - rich peat forests.

1 Positive 1.1 Carbon cycle feedbacks 1.1.1 Arctic methane release 1.1.1.1 Methane release from melting permafrost peat bogs 1.1.1.2 Methane release from hydrates 1.1.2 Abrupt increases in atmospheric methane 1.1.3 Decomposition 1.1.4 Peat decomposition 1.1.5 Rainforest drying 1.1.6 Forest fires 1.1.7 Desertification 1.1.8 CO2 in the oceans 1.1.9 Modelling results 1.1.9.1 Implications for climate policy 1.2 Cloud feedback 1.3 Gas release 1.4 Ice - albedo feedback 1.5 Water vapor feedback 2 Negative 2.1 Carbon cycle 2.1.1 Le Chatelier's principle 2.1.2 Chemical weathering 2.1.3 Net Primary Productivity 2.2 Lapse rate 2.3 Blackbody radiation

Forest and peat fires in Southeast Asia are a substantial source of greenhouse gas emissions.

The study included carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels and producing chemicals and cement but excluded emissions from activities like deforestation and logging, forest and peat fires, the decay of biomass after burning and decomposition of organic carbon in drained peat soils.

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.»

What worries people even more is the effect that would have on emissions, especially when the fires ravage forests arising out of peat.

In 2015, after months of forest fires and choking pollution levels, the Indonesian government identified dozens of companies responsible for millions of hectares of torched forest and peat land.

Close monitoring is needed in countries with specific issues, such as forest fires in the peat and mangrove forests of South East Asia.