Sentences with phrase «smoldering peat»

When we picture a wildfire, it's unlikely we would imagine a smoldering peat fire.

The cutting down of forests across the globe contributes a startling 20 percent of the world's annual greenhouse pollution through burning, gases released from deforested soil and smoldering peat, scientists say.

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):

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.

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

Not exact matches

Last week, after The Times explored the less visible combustion in the region around Moscow — in underground layers of peat — I sent a couple of questions to Guillermo Rein, an expert on such smoldering subterranean fires and an assistant professor at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

The peat then smolders for a much longer time.

Any water content below this means the peat can smolder.

Water content of the peat governs smoldering ignition.

Their efforts were complicated by a smoldering layer of peat.

The most important fuels involved in smoldering fires are coal and peat.