(PhysOrg.com) -- David Schindler and colleagues at the University of Alberta have published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in which they detail what they believe is the true impact of oil sands ...
In 1997, a forest fire in Indonesia ignited an area of peatlands that smouldered for months. By the time it was over, the fire had released greenhouse gases equal to 20 to 40 percent of the total worldwide emissions that ...
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A recent study by the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), the Russian Academy of Sciences and the University of Eastern Finland examined the profitability of continuous cover forestry (CCF) in peatland forests. In ...
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There are, arguably, only two interesting facts about bogs. The first is that some people have a jolly good time swimming through them, notably at the World Bog Snorkelling Championships held each year in central Wales, UK. ...
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A University of Oregon-led research team has identified tropical peatland in Indonesia that is twice as old and much deeper than previously thought.
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A new study led by researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Montreal, in cooperation with researchers from various Nordic research institutions, finds that peatlands may strengthen the permafrost-carbon ...
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Mar 1, 2019
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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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Wetlands in Canada's boreal forest contain deep deposits of carbon-rich soils, made up of decomposed vegetation (peat) that has accumulated over thousands of years. Globally, peatlands store twice as much carbon as all of ...
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Jun 26, 2019
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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 ...
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Rising temperatures were a key driver of peatland formation after the last glacial maximum, according to new research.
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