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Papers
- Carbon Costs for Peatland Conversion (Nature.com)
"A study has quantified emissions from clearing peat-swamp forest in Southeast Asia for palm-oil plantations." 03-11
- Moscow Under Siege From Peat Bog Fires (New York Times)
"Perhaps the most noxious and dangerous characteristic of peat fires is their heavy smoke. In a surface fire, the heat forces the smoke plume into the atmosphere. But in a peat fire, with its relatively cool surface temperatures, the smoke hugs the ground, seeping into homes, choking lungs and stopping flights at airports."
"All countries with peat — the four largest are Russia, Canada, the United States and Indonesia, according to Mr. Rein — experience peat fires, he said. Fires are more common in tropical peat than in boreal peat, he said, though global warming may change that." 08-10
- Peat Bog Fires a Major Source of Pollution (Guardian.co.uk)
"Fixing Russia's peat bogs will do us all a favour because even when it isn't burning, dried-out peat is a disaster. Clearing, draining and setting fire to peatlands for forestry and agriculture releases more than 3bn tons of carbon dioxide each year, equivalent to a gigantic 7% of global emissions from all fossil fuels. There's more carbon locked away in the world's bogs and mires than in all the trees put together." 08-10
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