Sentences with phrase «through peat»

The researchers sampled water in pores, or microscopic voids in peat, at numerous sites across the Glacial Lake Agassiz peatlands in northwestern Minnesota to see how water moves solutes through the peat.

Because the carbon that stimulates methane production is primarily dissolved organic carbon carried downward through the peat by rainwater rather than the solid - phase carbon that forms peat, this change in transport depth doubled the peak production zones for methane.

The landscape varies from lunar landscape through peat lands and fertile farm lands to stunning coastline and gorgeous hills.

Not exact matches

Brewed and infused with «curiously odd» ingredients, Dr. Jekyll's Beer Attack exhilarates the senses through its complex flavors and aroma by combining a touch of cinnamon with a mildly sweet, nuttiness along with a hint of smokiness from imported peated malt.

Woods, however, holds the distinction of being the only golfer to accomplish the four - peat twice — at the Arnold Palmer Invitational from 2000 through 2003, and at the Farmers Insurance Open between 2005 and 2008.

In O'Neal's most dominant seasons (he was Finals MVP every year during the Lakers» three - peat from 2000 through» 02) he would attempt at least one field goal every 2.0 minutes of playing time; last year that figure was one shot every 2.6 minutes.

But changes in land use — draining the water to plant acres of crops that demand drier soil, a common practice in tropical regions, or building a road through an area — can dry out the peat.

«Most people walk far, far out of their way to avoid walking through these things, but I love them,» says Merritt Turetsky, a peat researcher at the University of Guelph in Canada.

The team of researchers, from the Universities of Gloucestershire, Aberdeen and Plymouth, conducted studies on past climate through detailed laboratory examination of peat from a bog near Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego.

Animals including the Arthropleura — a nearly 10 - foot - long relative of the centipede — splashed through grass - free, shallow waters, their feet skimming the spongy peat made from decomposing foliage.

Through its data collection, the study expanded the circumpolar peat carbon pool estimate for permafrost regions by more than 50 percent.

It concludes that the government's own guidelines for conserving endangered ecosystems, through the designation of sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs), require that peat cutting should halt.

The fossils were formed in a swampy peat bog of a tropical to subtropical environment where plant tissues were preserved through rapid silicate diagenesis.

A dirt path takes us through a natural peat bog reserve and we glimpse tiny lakes surrounded by vineyards and cane fields.

These warming regimes will also drive rapid emissions from tropical peat, through tropical rainforest drying and through heat stresses on boreal forests.

The sun, like a red hot cinder, glowed through the clouds of smoke from the peat bogs.

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.

The paper giant has been dogged by allegations that is destroying key wildlife habitat, driving substantial greenhouse gas emissions through the conversion of peat forests, dispossessing local communities of land, and engaging in a heavy - handed campaign to undermine its critics within Indonesia and abroad.

A new study released by Global Forest Watch Canada finds that significant amounts of greenhouse gases are emitted through the disturbance and / or removal of biocarbon (trees, shrubs, peats), which overlay Alberta's oil sands.

Photo Credit: Two members of Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari walk through the bush at the healthy part of Tripa peat swamp forest in Nagan Raya, Aceh province, Indonesia, October 1, 2012.

Yes, I agree when deforestation of peat land converter to oil palm plantation, Co2 released to the atmosphere caused global warming but in the other hand when Oil Palm Plantation already established, it also can absorb Co2 through photosynthesis.