Sentence examples for peat burning from inspiring English sources
However that does not include emissions from deforestation and peat burning.
In the Boreal Plain of Canada, the margins of peatland ecosystems that regulate solute and nutrient fluxes between peatlands and adjacent mineral uplands are prone to deep peat burning.
Furthermore, additional large-scale C losses resulting from uncontrolled peat burning or wildfire spreading into peat areas >300 cm deep are not included in the estimate.
The beneficial effects of peat burning are, however, short-lived and after only two years another burn is needed to support cropping.
Including peat burning in the GEOS-Chem simulation improves agreement with MOPITT observations.
Inventory of boreal fire emissions for North America in 2004: The importance of peat burning and pyro-convective injection.
"Taking peat and burning it is the most unecological thing you can do with it," said Dr. Foss.
About 2,000 acres of forest and peat are burning in an area of Belarus contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Why are peat lands burning?
A thick layer of smoke from peat bogs burning in the surrounding region was beginning to clear as strong winds and lightning storms were forecast.
The RSPB pointed to the case of Walshaw Moor, a shooting estate in the Pennines where Natural England dropped an inquiry into peat-bog burning.
