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From fire breaks to fire hazards: Human activity & climate change transforming world's peatlands
2016-06-27 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Since the glaciers receded about 12,000 years ago, the humble bog has acted as a storage vault for atmospheric carbon, packed with dead moss and topped by a green layer of living moss that can come back after a burn. The world's bogs hold more carbon than the word's rainforests, and Canada is home to about 185 billion tonnes of increasingly vulnerable peat deposits, ranging from 40 cm to several metres deep. Dried peatlands fuelled a 2011 fire in Slave Lake Alberta, for example, and the recent...
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$1m for devising best way to map Indonesias peatlands
2016-03-05 13:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Want to make a million dollars? Find the most efficient way to map Indonesias peatlands. Thats the ticket to winning the Indonesian Peat Prize, announced by the cartographically challenged Southeast Asian country last month. The competition will establish a national standard for mapping peatland extent and thickness, a process deemed essential to stopping the annual forest and peat fires which grow more devastating by the year. Last dry season, they burned an area the size of Rwanda, afflicted...
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With haze threatening return, Indonesian forestry giant pushes peatlands restoration model
2016-02-04 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Last year some two million hectares of land in Indonesia went up in flames across Sumatra, Borneo, and the Western half of New Guinea. The conflagrations caused choking air pollution, hospitalizing hundreds of thousands of people and further denting regional economies already hard hit by the downturn in commodity prices. Daily carbon emissions from the fires during the height of the crisis were higher than the daily emissions from the entire U.S. economy. Most of the haze was caused by fires burning...
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United Kingdom: Peatlands burn as gamekeepers create landscape fit grouse-shooting
2015-07-05 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: They are home to a diverse range of wildlife and up to 8,000 years old. And, according to a damning analysis by an independent government advisory body, the UKs upland peat bogs are facing a sustained threat from the shooting classes desire to bag grouse. The Committee on Climate Changes 2015 progress report to parliament notes: Wetland habitats, including the majority of upland areas with carbon-rich peat soils, are in poor condition. The damaging practice of burning peat to increase grouse...
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Carbon emissions from peatlands may be less than expected
2015-05-11 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Duke University scientists have discovered a previously unknown dual mechanism that slows peat decay and may help reduce carbon dioxide emissions from peatlands during times of drought. "This discovery could hold the key to helping us find a way to significantly reduce the risk that increased drought and global warming will change Earth's peatlands from carbon sinks into carbon sources, as many scientists have feared," said Curtis J. Richardson, director of the Duke University Wetland Center and...
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