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Peatlands
Jakarta Post,The government is drafting a presidential decree on peatland management to help combat global warming, as peatlands store a huge amount of greenhouse gases. Reuters Summit-Deforestation needs to be in next climate pact - Oct 1, 2007 ReutersMurdiyarso said Indonesia's vast peatlands, which are a huge store of carbon, will play a key role in shaping post-Kyoto plans on reducing global warming. Committed to conservation - Oct 9, 2007 Jakarta Post,This is not the blackmail of "give me your money or I will burn my forest and drain my peatlands". It is also not begging for alms based on poverty. Indonesia seeks payout to save forests - official - Oct 8, 2007 ReutersThe sprawling archipelago is also home to 60 percent of the world's threatened tropical peatlands -- dense tropical swamps that release big amounts of Protect your peat, EU project urges governments - Sep 25, 2007 NEWSFOOD.com Primo piano,Participants at an international symposium have urged South-East Asian governments to protect their tropical peatlands. The meeting, which was held in Blockade of D1 Oils - anti-agrofuel demo - Oct 18, 2007 Indymedia UK,They result in deforestation of tropical rainforests and burning of peatlands which increase carbon in the atmosphere. Studies have shown that when you Green fuel gets a black name - Oct 12, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald,The trade has helped drive Indonesia's spectacular rate of deforestation and the burning of its peatlands. Early this year, the United Nations released a Palm oil furore could stymie green fuel plan - Oct 10, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald,The devastation of rainforest and peatlands has caused some big European biofuel companies to shun palm oil as a source. But companies like Natural Fuels The death of an Erris landmark - Oct 17, 2007 Western People,With not a little pride in my voice, I have told them how Finland and the former Soviet Union, themselves possessed of huge peatlands, looked at the way I hope commission will find the truth - Oct 6, 2007 ic Wales,Rising temperatures can dry these peatlands, leading to more carbon being released into the atmosphere. Managing these SSSIs to limit drainage and restore World Bank offers $300M for forest conservation, emissions reductions - Oct 15, 2007 Mongabay.comBy some estimates, Indonesia's annual emissions may be higher than those of Brazil due to degradation of carbon-rich peatlands. The World Bank said that 20 Who deserves your vote? - Sep 28, 2007 Scotsman,His expertise in peatlands singled him out for the prestigious Christopher Cadbury Medal for conservation in Britain in 2005. Peat provides a home for rare How green is palm oil? - Sep 23, 2007 Jakarta Post,Greens groups say palm oil is driving the conversion of tens of thousands of hectares of peatlands and lowland forest in Indonesia, putting wildlife at risk New York's latest Natural Heritage Area - Oct 12, 2007 WSTM-TV,...pristine silver maple-ash swamps, red maple-hardwood swamps, red maple-tamarack peatlands, calcareous pavement barrens and calcareous shoreline outcrops Greenpeace launches Forest Defenders Camp in Indonesia - Oct 11, 2007 WebWire (press release),The area surrounding the camp has recently been cleared of forest and peatlands have been destroyed to make way for oil palm plantations. Agro-fooling ourselves - Oct 5, 2007 ZNet,The conservation group Wetlands International estimated that the import to Europe of south east Asian palm oil originating from drained peatlands would ENERGY: Report Challenges EU Subsidies for Biofuels - Oct 4, 2007 IPS,Producing biofuels from wetlands and peatlands situated on high stocks of carbon leads to high emissions of greenhouse gases. Emilie Pons, a researcher at Jastre Advises People Against Open Fires - Oct 2, 2007 Bru Direct,The slightly hazy conditions are attributed to the continuous occurrences of fires in peatlands, abandoned and community areas in neighbouring countries. Another magazine is possible - Sep 23, 2007 Redpepper.org,...across the global South is likely to accelerate climate change by intensifying the use of nitrous oxides, draining peatlands and deforestation. Flow Country nature reserve opens - Aug 16, 2007 Scotsman,The loophole was closed after pressure from environmental groups concerned the peatlands were being destroyed. The trees have now been felled and the damage The Role of Northern Peatlands in Global Climate Change - Aug 13, 2007 CO2 Science Magazine,The authors note that "throughout the Holocene, northern peatlands have both accumulated carbon and emitted methane," so that "their impact on climate Humble mosses may help greenhouse gas concerns - Aug 13, 2007 National Post,Frozen for hundreds of years, these thawing boreal peatlands -- visible as sunken patches of bog in aerial photos used by the researchers to select their Leicester Researchers Head Off to the New "Black Gold" - Aug 14, 2007 PressZoom (press release),The conference will address issues concerning tropical peatlands that recent media coverage has dubbed the "carbon time bomb" and the "new black gold". Climate Deals Turn Up Heat in Indonesia's Dark Peatlands - Jul 21, 2007 ChristianToday,It used to be malaria that gave people fevers in Indonesia's remote, mosquito-infested peatlands. Now it is carbon. It used to be malaria that gave people Bog snorkellers to get down and dirty - Jul 27, 2007 Belfast Telegraph,The event is aimed at celebrating the beauty of our bogs and making people more aware of peatlands and the threats they face. Louise McAlavey of EHS's Climate change and permafrost thaw alter greenhouse gas emissions ... - Aug 10, 2007 MSU Today,Their study focused on peatlands, a common type of wetland in boreal regions that slowly accumulates peat, which is an accumulation of partially decayed Peat that! Hardy snorkellers swim for glory in a bog - Jul 30, 2007 Belfast Telegraph,The plucky competitors donned flippers on Saturday to plunge into a water-filled trench cut from a peat bog at Peatlands Park near Dungannon, For peat's sake, stop the palm oil madness - Jul 31, 2007 Grist Magazine,The extensive fire damage caused in 1997 has accelerated changes already being caused in tropical peatlands by forest clearance and drainage. ‘Big potential for creating wetlands’ - Jul 21, 2007 Gulf Times,They include swamps and marshes, lakes and rivers, wet grasslands and peatlands, oases, estuaries, deltas and tidal flats, near-shore marine areas, Groundbreaking research ensures long-term peat availability - Jul 27, 2007 Brantford Expositor,In the mid 1990s, plant ecologist Dr. Line Rochefort kicked off an exhaustive research program to prove that harvested or abandoned peatlands could be What the Peat Bog People Can Tell Us About Beauty - Aug 2, 2007 أرابياPeatlands are most extensive in northern regions. They develop where drainage of water is blocked, precipitation is retained, and decomposition of organic Rapid Early Development of Circumarctic Peatlands and Atmospheric ... - Oct 12, 2006 Science Magazine (subscription)An analysis of 1516 radiocarbon dates demonstrates that the development of the current circumarctic peatlands began 16.5 thousand years ago (ka) and expanded ... Rapid Growth of Huge Northern Bog Complex May Have Helped Kick ... - Oct 12, 2006 UC Los Angeles,...is, with oxygen. Today, these peatlands are thought to hold about one-third of globe's store of sequestered soil carbon. But, in ... £135,000 drive to dig up 'tax-dodge' trees and restore peatlands - Oct 9, 2006 Scotsman,Wogan. The loophole was closed after pressure from environmental groups, concerned that the peatlands were being destroyed. The ... Points of View - Oct 11, 2006 The Herald,...stores carbon. Disturb the peatlands substantially and you release all that stored carbon back into the atmosphere as CO2. If this ... Study points to high mercury release from forest fires due to ... - Sep 18, 2006 Canoe.ca,But researchers assumed peatlands - widespread in the vast boreal forest stretching across nearly every Canadian province and far into the territories ... Wildfires release 15 times more toxic mercury - Sep 19, 2006 Hamilton Spectator,But researchers assumed peatlands -- widespread in the vast boreal forest stretching across nearly every Canadian province -- released the potent neurotoxin at ... RSPB maps out areas where birds are at risk - Oct 9, 2006 Scotsman,...wind farms on Skye, because of golden eagles, and is objecting to proposals for huge wind farms on Lewis, claiming that they would harm the peatlands and bird ... High mercury release from forest fires due to climate change - Sep 19, 2006 ChronicleHerald.ca,But researchers assumed peatlands — widespread in the vast boreal forest stretching across nearly every Canadian province and far into the territories ... Borneo and Sumatra burn as forest fires rage - Oct 4, 2006 Mongabay.comOf special concern are the region's peatlands which, when burned, release massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmoshpere and are extremely difficult to ... Boreal forests worth $250 billion per year worldwide - Sep 24, 2006 Mongabay.comCarbon stored in Canada's boreal forests and peatlands is worth $3.7 trillion according to research by the Pembina Institute for the Canadian Boreal Initiative ... More toxic mercury released as climate changes: study - Sep 19, 2006 Guelph Mercury (subscription),But researchers assumed peatlands -- widespread in the boreal forest that stretches across Canada -- released mercury at the same rate as trees and other so ... Canadian forests do $93B worth of pollution control per year ... - Sep 24, 2006 Calgary Sun,The water filtration and erosion control function of boreal peatlands is worth $77 billion, and forests also generate billions in tourist spending. ... Toxic mercury levels high from fires - Sep 19, 2006 Calgary Sun,Scientists have long known forest fires release mercury into the atmosphere, but they didn't know peatlands -- widespread in the vast boreal forest -- tend to ... Money does grow on trees - Sep 27, 2006 The Standard,..."The forests and peatlands store an estimated 67 billion tonnes of carbon in Canada alone," he said, adding this was almost eight times the amount of carbon ... Boreal forests worth $93Ba year - Sep 25, 2006 Calgary Sun,The water filtration and erosion control boreal peatlands provide is worth $77 billion, and forests also generate billions in tourist spending. ... Carbon capture, water filtration, other boreal forest ecoservices ... - Sep 25, 2006 YubaNet,The forests and peatlands store an estimated 67 billion tonnes of carbon in Canada alone – almost eight times the amount of carbon produced worldwide in year ... Haze To Persist For Days: Met Office - Sep 27, 2006 Bru Direct,These hotspots were located in the central and western parts of Kalimantan, mostly in abandoned ex-plantation areas and peatlands. ... Tundra Responses to Experimental Warming - Sep 19, 2006 CO2 Science Magazine,...to sequester increasingly larger amounts of carbon and thereby slow the rate of rise of the air's CO2 content (see Carbon Sequestration (Peatlands) in our ... Boreal Forests Provide Billions in Uncounted Benefits - Sep 25, 2006 Environment News ServiceAnielski said the boreal is "like a giant carbon bank account," with forests and peatlands of region storing an estimated 67 billion metric tons of carbon in ... 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