Sentences with phrase «peatland fire»

Most studies of peatland fire emission factors, which help researchers approximate the amount of pollutants released into the atmopshere, have been carried out in a laboratory setting.

The devastating impacts of forest and peatland fires on humans last year went beyond our tolerance.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change uses such studies to inform their greenhouse gas accounting, but these lab - sourced values may not accurately represent actual emissions from peatland fires.

The industry's breakneck expansion in the archipelagic country has fueled economic growth but also deforestation, land grabbing and the annual peatland fires that last year blanketed the region in a choking haze, sickened half a million people and pumped more carbon into the atmosphere than the entire EU during a two - month period.

The Indonesian government recently approved an agreement to reduce haze pollution from peatland fires.

Not exact matches

Or fires set to clear land for agriculture can get out of hand, like they've done in Indonesia: Over the last few decades, the country has drained many of its peatlands to grow oil palms and other crops.

Draining the land plus «slash and burn» techniques to clear areas for agriculture are the main reasons that tropical peatlands are catching fire, says Alexander Cobb, an environmental scientist at the Singapore - MIT Alliance for Research and Technology.

But in their natural, wet state, peatlands are resistant to fires.

Global vulnerability of peatlands to fire and carbon loss.

Certification also failed to reduce fire or peatland clearance.

Fires spread across 64 hectares of forest and peatland have been reported in five districts in West...

The Riau administration has increased the emergency status for peatland and forest fires in the prov...

These ecosystems, primarily the Arctic tundra (5), peatlands (1), and tropical rain forests (6, 7, 8), harbor ancient, highly - concentrated carbon stocks, which are rapidly released during fire events like the one in Indonesia.

Smoldering fires in peatlands have been reported in tropical, temperate and boreal forests, e.g., Northern America (Alaska, Canada, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Carolina, California), Russia (St Petersburg, Moscow, Siberia), the British Isles (Ireland, Scotland, England), South of Europe (Spain, Italy), South Asia (Indonesia and nearby island), Southern Africa (Mali, Botswana), Falkland Isles, and others.

Updated with reader - author exchange below, 9:28 p.m. Here's a «Your Dot» contribution on the many benefits of managing fires in forests, savannah and peatlands — including slowing global warming, protecting threatened ecosystems and reducing noxious palls of haze.

Globally, peatlands store about 30 % of the world's soil carbon in only 3 % of its land area, but this carbon is vulnerable to the fast burn of fires, and may be released in the form of carbon dioxide if the water balance and natural vegetation are altered.

The government program includes a moratorium on expansion of cultivation, control and prevention of forest fires, assessment of degradation impacts to determine future sustainable land use, implementation of sustainable land use, conservation of peatlands, a focus on resolving conflicts over resource issues, and enhancement of good governance.

Last year, devastating fires swept across Indonesia and neighboring countries, thanks to decades of slash - and - burn clearing of forests and peatlands, mostly by palm oil and timber companies.

Global Forest Watch Fires shows that more than half of these fires have occurred on peatland areas, concentrated mainly in South Sumatra, South and Central Kalimantan, and PFires shows that more than half of these fires have occurred on peatland areas, concentrated mainly in South Sumatra, South and Central Kalimantan, and Pfires have occurred on peatland areas, concentrated mainly in South Sumatra, South and Central Kalimantan, and Papua.

The report, «Assessment on Peatlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change», shows that clearance, drainage and fires in peatlands emit more than 3 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year, but that protection and restoration of peatlands are among the most cost - effective options for slowing globalPeatlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change», shows that clearance, drainage and fires in peatlands emit more than 3 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year, but that protection and restoration of peatlands are among the most cost - effective options for slowing globalpeatlands emit more than 3 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year, but that protection and restoration of peatlands are among the most cost - effective options for slowing globalpeatlands are among the most cost - effective options for slowing global warming.

NEWS: After 2015's devastating fire season, local authorities in South Sumatra are determined to end slash - and - burn and restore peatland

This private sector - led initiative is part of the wider peat protection policy rolled out by President Joko «Jokowi» Widodo with the idea that rehabilitating peatlands by wetting peat soil and planting peat - friendly crops will make them less prone to fires.

The authors note that degraded peatland will have a higher density because of peat compaction, resulting in more methane emissions during a fire.

The latest data from NASA shows that conditions developing in the tropical Pacific are eerily similar to those in 1997, when El Niño wreaked havoc across Indonesia, spurring a severe drought that exacerbated massive peatland and forest fires which spread choking haze across much of South and Southeast Asia.

(02/22/2009) Destruction of rainforests and peatlands is making Indonesia more susceptible to devastating forest fires, especially in dry el Niño years, report researchers writing in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Analyzing six years of climate and fire data from satellites, Guido van der Werf and colleagues report that burning of rainforests and peatlands in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea released an average of 128 million tons of carbon (470 million tons of carbon dioxide — CO2) per year between 2000 and 2006.

In an effort to avoid a repeat of past fire and haze crises, President Joko «Jokowi» Widodo issued several policies governing the management of peatlands, including a land - swap mechanism that allows companies to trade carbon - dense areas in their concessions for lands elsewhere as a means to reduce fire risk.

This week data from Guido van der Werf of the Global Fire Emissions Database showed that carbon emissions from fires raging across Indonesia's peatlands have surpassed 1.4 billion tons of...

This process degrades the peatlands, renders them susceptible to further outbreaks of fire and releases significant volumes of carbon dioxide.

When the fires that burn are on peatlands, it creates enormous other problems, such as the haze events that plague Singapore and other Southeast Asian cities from time to time.

Jokowi didn't disappoint, visiting fire - plagued areas in Riau and announcing a new moratorium on all logging permits and a plan to audit licenses of companies found to be clearing peatlands.

Aftermath of a fire in peatlands on the southwest border of Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan.