Search results for peat

Plants & Animals Feb 22, 2022

How three biosphere reserves came together to effectively solve the problems of nature conservation

Biodiversity conservation and the careful management of natural resources are key issues today in international relations. In the field of environmental protection, transnational cooperation is growing thanks to the reserves ...

Environment Feb 14, 2022

Dead or alive: Seagrasses continue to release methane after their die-off

Seagrasses cover shallow coastal regions of temperate and tropical seas worldwide. Seagrass meadows form the basis of an essential ecosystem that is home to numerous animals, including endangered species of sea turtles, seahorses, ...

Environment Feb 8, 2022

Greenhouse gas emission impact from peatland fires underestimated by 200–300 percent

Deforestation fires in Brazil and Indonesia accounted for 3 percent and 7 percent, respectively, of the planet's total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in 2019 and 2020, finds a new study in Frontiers in Climate. Of that amount, ...

Environment Feb 8, 2022

Developing methods to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from landfills

Most people think about trash for 30 seconds a week—the amount of time it takes them to bring their garbage bin to the curb.

Archaeology Feb 8, 2022

Climate change threatens Hadrian's Wall treasures in England

Nineteen hundred years after it was built to keep out barbarian hordes, archaeologists at Hadrian's Wall in northern England are facing a new enemy—climate change, which threatens its vast treasure trove of Roman artefacts.

Archaeology Feb 2, 2022

How climate change is washing away precious evidence of our distant past

As well as threatening biodiversity, food systems and human health, climate change has another victim: ancient artifacts. At some UK sites of archaeological interest, unusually heavy rainfall is eroding layers of protective ...

Plants & Animals Jan 19, 2022

Baby orangutan being bottle-fed, which intrigues others

The endangered Sumatran orangutan infant at New Orleans' zoo is being bottle-fed because his mother wasn't producing enough milk.

Environment Jan 13, 2022

A natural gem is being destroyed by plastic

Mausund and the Froan Nature Reserve in Trøndelag have had notable problems with plastic litter for many years. Professional clean-up work began a few years ago with the removal of marine litter in the archipelago's islands ...

Biotechnology Jan 11, 2022

Scientists use Summit supercomputer, deep learning to predict protein functions at genome scale

A team of scientists led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Georgia Institute of Technology is using supercomputing and revolutionary deep learning tools to predict the structures and roles ...

Environment Jan 5, 2022

Rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations globally affect photosynthesis of peat-forming mosses

Scientists at Umeå University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences have developed ways to decipher effects of the CO2 rise during the past 100 years on metabolic fluxes of the key plant species in peatlands, mosses. ...

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