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Amazonian peatlands store mega carbon
2014-12-18 00:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Peatlands in the Peruvian Amazon store ten times the amount of carbon as undisturbed rainforest in adjacent areas, making them critical in the battle to fight climate change, finds a new study published in Environmental Research Letters. While peatlands in Southeast Asia - namely Sumatra, Borneo, and New Guinea - are best known to tropical ecologists, they are also found in other parts of the world, including the Amazon. The new research looks specifically at an area known as the Pastaza-Maraón...
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Amazon peatlands are 'most carbon-dense ecosystem'
2014-12-15 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The most dense store of carbon in Amazonia is not above ground in trees but below ground in peatlands, a study has calculated. An international team of researchers said their work, which uses satellite data and field measurements, provides the "most accurate estimates to date". Protecting these landscapes is vital if efforts to curb climate change are to be successful, they added. The findings appear in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Writing in the paper, the scientists observed:...
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Researchers create more accurate model greenhouse gases from peatlands
2014-10-03 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhyOrg: Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have created a new model to more accurately describe the greenhouse gases likely to be released from Arctic peatlands as they warm. Their findings, based on modeling how oxygen filters through soil, suggest that previous models probably underestimated methane emissions and overrepresented carbon dioxide emissions from these regions. Peatlands, common in the Arctic, are wetlands filled with dead and decaying organic matter....
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10 Reasons Why Must Save Indonesian Peatlands
2014-06-03 15:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: For years, this is known as a smoky, hazy time of year in Sumatra, Indonesia. And each year its getting worse. Its the dry season, and hundreds of thousands of hectares of Indonesian peatland fires will burn for months. Those fires are a direct result of decades of forest and peatland destruction. Peat is partially decayed, dead vegetation, which has accumulated over thousands of years. It is typically saturated with water and therefore virtually impossible to set alight. But when peatlands are...
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Indonesia's proposed peat law too weak protect peatlands, stop haze, says Greenpeace
2014-03-14 21:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A new regulation aiming to protect peatlands is likely to fall short of its goals, failing to stop peat degradation, emissions, and fires that are driving the current haze crisis in Southeast Asia, asserts a new analysis from Greenpeace. The paper, published on Wednesday, argues that the new land regulation currently being discussed in parliament fails to take a holistic view of managing peatlands. For example, the regulation doesn't adequately protect shallow peat areas that may be connected...
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