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Vast Peat Fires Threaten Health and Boost Global Warming
2016-07-02 20:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ensia: As forest fires devastated Fort McMurray, Alberta, last month, a different sort of fire may have started beneath the ground. Peat, a carbon-rich soil created from partially decomposed, waterlogged vegetation accumulated over several millennia and the stuff that fueled Indonesias megafires last fall, also appears in the boreal forests that span Canada, Alaska and Siberia. With the intense heat from the Fort McMurray fires, theres a good chance the soil in the area could have been ignited, says...
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Highfern's Angels' Nectar Blended Malt Scotch Whisky Rich Peat Edition - Product Launch
2016-02-05 16:22:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Highfern has added a heavily-peated expression to its Angels' Nectar blended Scotch brand.
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Carbon emissions from Indonesian peat fires vary considerably based on fire type, research shows
2015-12-17 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Carbon emissions caused by burning tropical peatlands in Indonesia vary considerably depending on if the fires are initial or recurrent, according to new research conducted at the University of Leicester. The study, which was co-authored by Professor Susan Page and Dr Kevin Tansey from the University of Leicester's Department of Geography, also found that peatlands closer to canals have a higher probability of high frequency fires, which release harmful carbon emissions into the atmosphere. The...
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Jokowi to oversee Indonesia peat restoration agency but details thin on the ground
2015-11-27 02:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Indonesia's forestry minister says a government agency to manage the archipelago's peat restoration plans will be overseen by the president. The Indonesian Palm Oil Association (Gapki) announced new policies at a palm oil conference in Bali on Thursday. A shipping trade publication in Singapore surveyed 250 people in the city state and found 18% of them would relocate if the haze became an annual norm. Indonesia will form a government agency overseen directly by President Joko Jokowi...
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Rising seas, peat may have done in large ice age animals
2015-11-02 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Woolly mammoths and other large ice age mammals thrived in northern Alaska until environmental changes turned grasslands into peat and rising sea levels submerged the Bering Land Bridge, cutting off their access to Asia, according to a research paper published Monday. Researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of California studied bones of ice age horses, steppe bison, mammoths and other animals to determine why they died out in whats now Arctic Alaska. We wanted...