peatlands in A Sentence

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Burning peat bogs in Moscow. Why are Peatlands burning?

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Peatlands in polar environments store about a third of the global soil carbon reserves.

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These results do not necessarily apply to other northern areas like the immense boreal Peatlands or polar desert.

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The trouble is that in many parts of the world Peatlands are being destroyed or are under threat.

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The Cuvette Centrale region in Congo Basin is world's largest natural tropical Peatlands, which are about size of England.

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Growing the trees that produce the oil requires the leveling of native forest and the destruction of local Peatlands- which doubles the harmful effect on the ecosystem.

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A new study looking at peaty moorlands in the UK says that it's not just the Peatlands which matter in terms of the storage of greenhouse gases.

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The actions of one of the world's largest pulp and paper producers-- Asia Pulp and Paper(APP)-- have a huge impact on Indonesia's forests, tropical Peatlands and communities, and by extension, the world's climate.

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While the report more recommends bolstering natural systems like forests and Peatlands, which have stored carbon without our help for hundreds of millions of years, researchers are working on more drastic solutions, such as giant machines that hoover up CO2.

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These Peatlands have a permanently frozen ground underneath, the permafrost, and the carbon was able to build up in these soils over long periods of time because even though plants are able to photosynthesize during the short, warm summer months, the environment quickly turns cold and dark, and then microbes are not able to efficiently break down the residue.

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