Word: peated
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Temperature increases could destabilize carbon-rich northern peat bogs, resulting in a massive release of carbon and the acceleration of global warming trends, according to a recent Harvard study...
...After bagging back-to-back Ivy League titles in its sophomore and junior campaigns, the team’s Class of 2009 has a lot of experience on which to fall back as it gears up for a three-peat. But the bittersweet ending to last season proves that looking back is both a blessing and a curse...
...eyes deceive me, or do we have the possibility of seeing an Ivy three-peat, a perfecta trifecta, a…something else that’s really awesome involving three...
...case. It turns out that the carbon lost when wilderness is razed overwhelms the gains from cleaner-burning fuels. A study by University of Minnesota ecologist David Tilman concluded that it will take more than 400 years of biodiesel use to "pay back" the carbon emitted by directly clearing peat lands to grow palm oil; clearing grasslands to grow corn for ethanol has a payback period of 93 years. The result is that biofuels increase demand for crops, which boosts prices, which drives agricultural expansion, which eats forests. Searchinger's study concluded that overall, corn ethanol has a payback period...
...food additive. Growing it has long been a big business in Southeast Asia. But it can also be used in the production of a relatively clean-burning alternative fuel: biodiesel. As oil prices have soared in recent years, Indonesian companies have been converting vast tracts of forests and peat bogs into palm-oil plantations to feed a rapidly expanding biodiesel industry; between 1995 and 2005, the amount of Indonesian land being used to grow oil palms increased by some 8.6 million acres (3.5 million hectares), more than doubling total plantation area, according to a recent report on the industry...