peat

Most temperate forests, which exist at lower latitudes in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, lack the carbon-rich peat and soil that fuel zombie fires.

This suggests some of the peat carbon must instead have gone back into the land as plants grew, according to the researchers.

With poor understanding about peat locations, and poor reporting about land conversion, experts say, many countries can’t fully account for peat emissions even now.

Massive losses of tropical peat are even now occurring in countries like Indonesia and Malaysia, for instance, so global losses will be higher.

In its normal state, peat slowly pulls carbon out of the atmosphere — unless you disturb it.

Two days later, on January 5, 2012, MC Peat Co LLP took out a loan in the amount of £2.73 million, or $4.5 million.

Charlie Peat denied to me by email that his investment house was lent any money from Roman Abramovich.

Is the fact that it worked in Norway a good reason to give peat moss a try?

He had nearly bitten his swollen tongue in two falling over an unseen peat-cutting, and blood-flecked foam gathered on his lips.

It must be carefully composted with peat, and turned over several times before being used.

It is sometimes mixed with lime or gypsum, and dried with heat, and sometimes with animal charcoal or peat charcoal.

Dry peat of good quality contains about one per cent of nitrogen, and a quantity of ash varying from five to twenty per cent.

A stuffy hole, full of peat-smoke, and with a window that can't open at the best of times.