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England's Suffering Sheep Farming Could Destroy Natural Peat Lands
The rural countryside of Eastern England known as the Uplands supports a specific ecosystem where the 3,000 year old practice of domesticated herd grazing could balance naturally occurring peat lands, otherwise...
created by josiemitchell | 1 year ago | updated 51 wks ago
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486 views | 7 recommendations | 5 comments
Finnish bogs supplying Irish beauticians
"reland may be a country famed for its wild bogs, but Irish beauticians using turf as a new skin-care treatment are being forced to import peat from overseas. Beauty consultants offering the ground-breaking therapy say it is increasingly popular here but they are being forced...Indonesian peatlands seen playing key climate role
Yogyakarta (ANTARA News) - To the average person, they are just ordinary swamps or bogs. But peatlands across the world are more than just simple marsh land: they are one of the largest carbon stores on earth and...The Oblate Spheroid, An Earthworm's View - Fossil Forest Find
"Last week, geologists surveying a coalmine 250 feet below the current surface of the Earth's crust, came upon a preserved 300 million year old forest. Measuring over four-square miles in size, the discovery is...
created by Edmund Jenks | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Poland faces court over motorway through protected wetlands
"The EU threatened legal action against Poland on Tuesday over the construction of a motorway that would destroy Europe's only remaining ancient peat land if built."It constantly amazes me that...Boreno is Burning
"Natural Hazards: Fires on Borneo The fires occur annually in the dry season (August-October), caused mainly by land-clearing and other agricultural fires."climate change is with us -- a decade ago it was conjecture
To stabilise atmospheric CO2 concentrations, CO2 emissions need to be cut by 70 to 80 percent.
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