Sentences with phrase «use peat»

As the BP oil spill moves from being a short and bloody battle to a long and drawn out war, I've personally have moved to from anger to trying to think more constructively, but here are two pieces of news which drag me right back to frustration: 1) In an Alabama wildlife refuge affected by the spill, even possessing a camera is prohibited; 2) BP apparently won't use peat moss to help clean up the oil because it won't be able to sell the oil afterwards.

But Mel suggests people use peat, which isn't sustainable if we all use it, and lots of commercially - produced fertilizers.

Sherry, I have severe stomach issues and IBS and this Nature's Head toilet works fine for us.We do better changing it one a week, or every two weeks at the most for two people (that is using peat moss).

Not exact matches

J.Hohn, your argument applies for manufacturing industries that use natural resources, or perhaps natural resources like wind turbines and drone peat afforestation that have room to be scaled.

Had I been in the Yukon when creating these, I would've used one of my dad's amazing and peat Scotches as the rich flavour is so beautiful with dark chocolate.

Or if peat pots / peat pellets, or potting soils with a lot of peat moss in it, were used when planting pepper seeds, that can severely inhibit germination.

This includes a rare peated version of The Glenturret Single Malt whisky, which has been carefully handcrafted using traditional methods at Scotland's oldest working distillery — the Glenturret Distillery in Perthshire.

This report provides an independent review of available scientific information and published literature on impacts of the use of tropical peat for oil palm cultivation in Southeast Asia.

Use your fingers, a damp paper towel or a mushroom brush to remove any peat moss.

It is one of only a few distilleries that still uses traditional malting floors and dries and infuses its own malt with the thick blue smoke from old peat - fired kilns.

To get the acidity in the soil, after digging the hole, the girls and I used a 1:1 ratio of peat moss to native soil and backfilled.

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.

A study published in August 2017 in Global Change Biology used data on where water accumulates and how it flows across the landscape to predict where peat might be hiding in tropical regions.

Then the team used satellite data to measure the boundaries of the peat.

They used exactly the same laboratory methods as have been developed for peat bogs in Europe.

Two principal techniques were used to reconstruct past climates over the past 3000 years: at close intervals throughout a vertical column of peat, the researchers investigated the degree of peat decomposition, which is directly related to climate, and also examined the peat matrix to reveal the changing amounts of different plants that previously grew on the bog.

Others respond by recycling glass and paper, using low - energy light bulbs and alternatives to peat, restricting the use of cars and all the other commendable green practices.

Today, some 1.75 million cubic metres of peat are scraped out every year for use as a growing medium in nurseries and gardens.

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 announcement suggests that Jokowi himself is recognizing that a long - term solution to the fires can not be achieved without a fundamental change in land use, particularly related to peat lands,» she said.

Annual smoke and haze, created when the nation's peat lands are burned and cleared for agricultural use, create a regional health threat and send significant carbon into the atmosphere.

We used subfossil mosses and peats to document changes in regional climate, cryosphere, and terrestrial ecosystems in the western Antarctic Peninsula at ~ 65S latitude.

In 2002 and every year since, the Speyside distillery has set aside a week each year to using 100 - percent Highland peat for barley drying.

Depending on my goals, I could use carbon, bio-rings, bags of resin, filter wool, marbles, peat and even oyster shell.

We didn't indulge in the treatments but they sounded divine, using products sourced from the local landscape: peat, wild gentian (a plant to which we would soon be introduced) and other botanicals from the volcanic landscape.

UPDATE Sun - mar advises that I was not using the proper mix of sawdust and peat moss, and that the Building Code issues regarding the excess fluid have been resolved.

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.

RiHo08 says (28) «Since the recent heat wave and peat bog fires in Russia this summer have been used as evidence of an extreme weather event in response to global climate change, I thought a llterary reference to such events occurring periodically at least to the 12 th Century would be informative.»

Since the recent heat wave and peat bog fires in Russia this summer have been used as evidence of an extreme weather event in response to global climate change, I thought a llterary reference to such events occurring periodically at least to the 12 th Century would be informative.

As part of this, APP will suspend the excavation of canals that are typically used to drain peat swamps.

By using dual radioactive tracers with differing lifetimes, Wilson et al. [2017] found short term increases in CH4 and CO2 release during periods of thaw in a discontinuous permafrost were generally offset by long - term accumulation of peat in the ensuing millennia, leading the regions to continue to be net carbon sinks with negative atmospheric radiative forcing, given the long life - time of atmospheric CO2.

Landowners who restore peat soils can use this methodology to document and sell carbon credits on the voluntary carbon market.

The United Kingdom included emissions from peat extraction, drainage of wetlands and deep peat in their land - use change and forestry estimate.

The peat moss helps in a few ways, we mostly started using it to add «bulk» to the waste and allow air circulation.

The valuable peat either being used as a base for peat compost or fuel, the small amount of trees were usually left to the side in a pile.

They used spectroscopy to measure the levels of 12 different gases, including carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, and ammonia, within the smoke plumes of 10 peat fires in Malaysia.

They used control burns and spread peat dust to help clear land and melt snow.

Throw in a little bit of peat moss or be even more sustainable and use coconut coir.

Permafrost peat provides substrate for aquatic microbes [32], but the preferential use of modern C recently fixed from the atmosphere could be favored because of the greater lability of this pool [17].

There are many underlying causes for these fires, including the draining of swampy peat soils to make way for palm oil and pulpwood plantations and the use of illegal slash - and - burn practices by farmers

The permafrost of the world's largest peat bog, in West Siberia, 10 contains some 70 billion metric tons of methane — equal to about 16 percent of all the carbon added to the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion, land - use changes, and cement manufacture over the course of the past 150 years (from 1850 to 2000).7

When the peat is dug up or burned to make way for other uses, carbon is released, contributing to high greenhouse gas emissions.

use the subantarctic islands as thermometers of climatic change by using trees, peats and lakes to explore the past

«Scientist» seems to agree with Gavin on this, because, despite these ugly numbers, despite the graph that's level for centuries before going hyperbolic in the 20th Century, despite the obvious impossibility of meaningful calibration 1850 - 1995, despite the chapter - and - verse description in Tiljander03 of roadbuilding, peat cutting, farming, bridge reconstruction, and eutrophication — I used the word «absolutely.»

None of the four Tiljander proxies used in Mann08 can be meaningfully calibrated to the instrumental temperature record, the result of progressive contamination of any climate signals during the 19th and 20th centuries by local activities (farming, peat cutting, road building, bridge reconstruction, lake eutrophication).

And you're going with Gavin on this, because, despite these ugly numbers, despite the graph that's level for centuries before going hyperbolic in the 20th Century, despite the obvious impossibility of meaningful calibration 1850 - 1995, despite the chapter - and - verse of roadbuilding, peat cutting, farming, bridge reconstruction, and eutrophication — I used the word «absolutely.»

• Land Use, Land - Use Change, and Forestry (17 % of 2004 global greenhouse gas emissions)-- Greenhouse gas emissions from this sector primarily include carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from deforestation, land clearing for agriculture, and fires or decay of peat soils.

Methane recovery - Methane emissions, e.g., from oil or gas wells, coal beds, peat bogs, gas transmission pipelines, landfills, or anaerobic digesters, are captured and used as a fuel or for some other economic purpose (e.g., chemical feedstock).

Temperatures were first reconstructed using a novel approach based on branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers present in the membranes of anaerobic soil bacteria abundant in peat bogs (Weijers et al., 2007).

In calculating electricity usage the paper used figures for all of Scandinavia and not just Sweden: Hydropower producing 61 % of the electricity, nuclear 20 %, coal & peat 8 %, natural gas 5 %, wood 4 %, oil 2 %, and wind 1 %.