Sentence examples for peat mining from inspiring English sources

The response of amphibians to peat mining varied across taxa.

Peat mining negatively impacts amphibians occurring in bog remnants.

Economic constraints paired with concerns over the sustainability of peat mining have necessitated the replacement of peat with renewable and regionally abundant alternatives.

Maintaining a complex mosaic of bog ponds, shrub and forest patches might help mitigate peat mining effects on amphibian patterns of abundance.

Because of peat mining and transformation of peat bogs into agricultural land after drainage, suitable habitats for several characteristic species now show a very fragmented pattern.

The response of amphibians to peat mining is similar to the one of birds and plants, but differs with small mammals.

Aleksei A. Yermolenko, head of the Department for Preservation at the Federal Forestry Agency, said an outbreak of peat fires in 2002 prompted the government of the Moscow region to draw up plans to reflood old peat mines, but they had not yet been carried out.

Constructed wetlands receiving peat-mining runoff are known to be major sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to the atmosphere.

So mining for peat and using peat is a "lose, lose, lose" proposition.

When we mine peat for gardening we unlock those reserves of stored carbon.

Peat is still mined in many parts of the World.