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"peat" Definitions
  1. a soft black or brown substance formed from old or dying plants just under the surface of the ground, especially in cool wet areas. It is burned as a fuel or used to improve garden soil.

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Alas, these pairings only exist on Instagram, which is why I can't stop hitting repeat (peat, peat, peat, peat) on the Gomez and Bieber video.
Last year, it announced that it would close 17 bogs that had supplied peat for industrial uses, and phase out burning peat for energy by 2028.
"When it's a black peat or bare peat, it's 4-6 tons of CO2 [per hectare] per year," says Shane Regan, who works at the Irish National Parks and Wildlife Service.
Penguins hope to glide toward a three-peat: The National Hockey League kicked off a new season this week, with the Pittsburgh Penguins hoping for a rare three-peat as Stanley Cup Champions.
The smell of peat burning still lifts some people's hearts.
Sidhu, driving a load of peat moss, was not injured.
On Hoy he cut peat, grew potatoes and delivered lambs.
Days later, Stephen Peat was arrested and charged with arson.
I assume the Warriors are your pick to three peat?
Once dry, Florida's peat soils ignited in smoldering muck fires.
Peat, dry and rich in carbon, can burn for weeks.
They destroy peat that takes thousands of years to develop.
There was also a drop in forest loss in peat areas, likely due to government policies that prohibit draining the peat, which contains greenhouse gases that are released if the land is drained or burned.
"Not everyone has this deep organic layer (of peat)," Flannigan said.
Neither Leckie's biological parents nor Peat could be reached for comment.
In the case of Wallace Bay oysters, think peat and lamb.
Today, this is causing the marshes' thick peat soils to collapse.
Stephen Peat said he viewed prescription pills as a last resort.
It's not normal, he said, to have so much peat burning.
Typically only the top few inches of the peat will burn.
About 40 percent of Indonesia's carbon emissions come from burning peat.
Those who ignore herstory are doomed not to Ru-peat it.
LG: We ate it, it was delicious, like grassy peat moss.
If he wins, he would score an even rarer Oscar three-peat.
Peat is soggy and acidic, which prevents organic matter from decaying fully.
"You start to feel like everyone I touch is dying," Peat said.
Or how he hauled peat moss to the garden in a taxi.
In between, peat bogs were laced with the skeletons of fallen trees.
Peat bogs are packed with dead moss, overlaid with living green stuff.
Despite the complexity of flavours, Peat tells me it's a simple dish.
Mild and pleasing, with aromas and flavors of peat, iodine and earth.
On that note, I hope you thought this was a peat nuzzle!
NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Bob Iger may swing for a three-peat.
Foot your peat up and take a peek at the answer key.
Peat is harvested from bogs, watery mires where the earth yawns open.
Two thousand years later, peat had swallowed the remains of their pastures.
"Top tip: Peat burns best in palm-size bits," read one entry at a far-flung bothy called Strathchailleach (formerly a hermit's home), where the only locally available fuel comes in the form of a nearby peat deposit.
"If we can improve the peat condition during the rainy season the risk of flooding can be reduced, and in the dry season, the peat can release water which will reduce the risk of forest fire," he said.
Peat forests also take far longer to regenerate than forests on mineral soils.
Photographer Tina Claffey spent her summers cutting turf, or peat, with her family.
"I hope we can anticipate and avoid forest and peat fires," he added.
Once burned, the peat there won't store carbon again on any meaningful timescale.
"All that peat, combusted and gone," said Sophie Wilkinson, a McMaster doctoral student.
The Army prisoners spelled out "113-PEAT" on the backs of their uniforms.
"We actually use German peat," Georg Kugler, owner of the Gasthof Seitz, said.
To the left were vast expanses of farmland, peat bogs and intermittent homes.
I wanted to help my teammates on our quest for the three peat.
Experts attributed that largely to increased protection of peat areas in that Asian nation.
Indonesia contains around 214m hectares of peatland—most of the world's tropical peat forests.
But peat, or turf, is one of the most polluting fuels in the world.
The machine was operated by Bord na Móna, the state-owned peat harvesting firm.
Bord na Móna still harvests peat and exports it for horticultural use, for example.
Levels of peat in the malting process are being varied to provide different results.
Peat is burned as fuel, and is highly prized as agricultural land when drained.
The Amazon rainforest and Indonesia's peat swamps aren't the only places suffering from deforestation.
Grow a-twixt the peat moss and rocks, as is befitting your station. Fine.
And in March 2016, the government doubled the tax on coal, lignite, and peat.
The lapping of the Chesapeake was ripping away the peat at the water's edge.
The peat slowly builds up over centuries because the annual growth exceeds the decay.
Peat is a strong believer in its abilities to influence the way we feel.
The Lakers completed their three-peat by winning the NBA Finals again in 2002.
Both of the "three-peat" La Niña cases immediately followed massive El Niño events.
A rope, nearly black with peat, ran down the length of her back. Murder.
RED EARTH CREEK, Alberta — Kristyn Housman grabbed the end of a sampling auger, a steel tube that two colleagues had just drilled into a moss-covered hummock in a peat bog, and poked through a damp, fibrous plug of partly decomposed peat.
In the new study, Waddington and his collaborators, led by Gustaf Granath, now based in Uppsala, Sweden, looked at the impacts of the human use of peat bogs, including mining peat for horticultural uses, draining it for construction or agriculture, and so forth.
The first peat plant is expected to be completed this year with 15 MW capacity.
The most recent bout of scorching peat fires was in 2015, an El Niño year.
It's the smell of the peat that burns, so it's not a eucalypt-type smell.
The land just south of the lake is rich in peat — ideal for growing crops.
Drier peat allows more oxygen to get to the roots of trees and other vegetation.
As much as four feet of peat was consumed in some parts of the bog.
Researchers paired off males and females, provided them with peat and carrion, and began observations.
Calling itself the International Peat Mapping Team, the group takes home the $1 million prize.
Indonesia in the past has been accused of dragging its feet on its peat problem.
Left alone for a couple hundred million more years, the peat would solidify into coal.
Tourists drive past peat bogs and deep blue lochs on their way to the distilleries.
The peat has helped preserve the artifacts, but it's deteriorating as the water table changes.
Just check the label when you make a purchase and look for peat free. 2.
The fires are particularly difficult to extinguish because many of them are in peat forests.
In northern Alberta, where the Fort McMurray fire is raging, the earth is about 20% peat.
That allowed the peat to dry so that it could be removed in brick-like chunks.
Aroma: Delicate wisps of peat smoke combine with aromas of honey-cured meats and vanilla pods.
Last year, the toxic haze from peat fires in Indonesia affected 43 million people, UNEP said.
But this was also not to be, as Andrus Peat was called for holding Haloti Ngata.
"What I'm going through is what he did before his son passed away," Walter Peat said.
The headaches, Peat said, began in earnest a year or two after his playing career ended.
Peat entered the W.H.L. as a high-scoring defenseman and exited as a fist-first wing.
This causes them to grow bigger, which means they use more water, further drying the peat.
The smell of peat from barley stored here in Victorian times still lingered in the air.
When the other men arrived, Cillian was on his knees, scratching up peat like a dog.
Skiing dates back to a peat bog in Russia that's been carbon-dated to 8,000 years ago.
The Warriors fell to the Toronto Raptors in that series, ending their hopes of a three-peat.
But peat is also one of the dirtiest fuels available, emitting 23% more carbon dioxide than coal.
"Part of me was like, I want to sit and burn with this house," Stephen Peat said.
"I've been studying concussions, and some of the symptoms are things like anxiety and recklessness," Peat said.
But photos from the ground certainly suggest that, at least in some places, peat is on fire.
A peat fire, which can smolder like a cigarette for months, can release a lot of carbon.
For Peat, it was the natural home for a love of food he developed as a child.
The germination is stopped by heating the barley, sometimes over peat fires, which impart a smoky aroma.
This week: the threat to skiing, a $1 million prize for peat and a hidden flooding risk.
Indonesia has a peat problem, and it just awarded a $1 million prize to help solve it.
The Los Angeles Lakers were the last team to three-peat as champions, from 2000 to 24.
In the fall of 2015, Indonesia peat fires released more carbon per day than the European Union.
Those sites included around 11,000 hectares of peat, which, when set alight, can smolder for months underground.
Straightening from where he was kneeling on the ledge of mud, he brushed peat from his pants.
Although Ireland's first lessor, Guinness Peat Aviation (GPA), collapsed in 1993, Ireland has remained the industry's global hub.
As early as 22015, according to website archives and domain ownership records, Moore was selling Irish peat logs.
Carbon-rich black peat left open to the air actually emits vast quantities of carbon dioxide over time.
It even contains a room called the Cave, which features natural stone walls and an open-peat fireplace.
As for the night's biggest award, fans are wondering if Luke Bryan can pull off a three-peat?
Many of the Siberian and Alaskan fires are burning carbon-dense peat soils, which would normally be waterlogged.
But when that moss cap is removed and peat begins to dry out, they become vulnerable to flames.
Peat bog fires are the largest in the world in terms of carbon output, along with coal blazes.
And if Boogie Cousins is healthy at any point, they will without question three peat, in my opinion.
It's a #53-peat as well for Trolls, which hangs on in second place with an estimated $35.1 million.
The data this summer are "insane", says Guillermo Rein, an expert in peat fires at Imperial College in London.
For now, it cannot be accurately diagnosed until death, but Peat and his father worry that he has it.
He was awarded 17,455 Canadian dollars, or $13,343, but Peat said he does not have the money to pay.
Kelemete was starting in place of Andrus Peat, who was inactive for the game due to a groin injury.
It's difficult to tell from the satellite data just how many of the Arctic fires are burning through peat.
It could be burning underground, where decaying organic material called peat can keep it alive for months or more.
Scientists are getting worried about how climate change is drying out peat bogs, making them more vulnerable to fire.
When the bog does catch fire, it may be more severe, with the combustion spreading deeper into the peat.
Dry peat, high temperatures, and unrelenting winds are said to be hindering attempts to keep the fire under control.
RB C.J. Spiller, WR Marques Colston, LB Dannell Ellerbe and OL Andrus Peat and OL Terron Armstead were inactive.
Bogs are generally more open, characterized by an abundance of sphagnum, a superabsorbent moss, and the accretion of peat.
The Spartans prevented a championship three-peat by Michigan and beat their rival for the third time this season.
Brooks Koepka was aiming to become the first man to three-peat at this tournament in over a century.
It's Houston, then, which stands as the team most capable of derailing the Warriors' bid for a three-peat.
Because the plant material is waterlogged, decomposition actually slows as it forms peat—thick, mucky, layers of organic matter.
But in dry conditions, fires can quickly spread out of control, leading to widespread destruction of forests and peat.
Bryant's Los Angeles Lakers post a "three-peat" as NBA champions, sweeping the New Jersey Nets in the Finals.
New Orleans already is playing without starting left guard Andrus Peat, who broke his arm in the Atlanta loss.
The peat, which consists of slowly decomposing vegetation in swamp forests, has been accumulating for more than 10,000 years.
The world's carbon-rich ecosystems — tropical forests, mangrove swamps and peat lands — store more carbon than the entire atmosphere.
From this peat light her great eyes became invested with rose incandescence that was soft and soft and soft.
His personal three-peat was the first since Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neil accomplished the feat from 2000-2002.
They are part of a network of peat bogs across northern Peru that together store massive amounts of carbon.
Image: PNASThe 2,095 bones were found beautifully preserved in peat and lake sediments, and they belong almost exclusively to males.
Let's take the venus fly trap, which is a carnivorous plant that grows in the peat bogs of the Carolinas.
The app, created by German company PEAT in 2015, has 80% of its 1.1 million monthly active users in India.
According to the 22028 census, more than 75,000 households in the Republic of Ireland continue to burn peat this way.
Once ignited, those fires creep deep underground, smoldering through thousands of years of carbon-rich peat for months on end.
But a growing number of scientists are concerned about what exceptionally dirty, unnatural peat fire seasons mean for our planet.
Canada, the biggest exporter, sold more than 1m tonnes of decomposed moss from peat bogs last year for around $337m.
The peat also becomes a fuel, so it is not just felled trees that are burning but the ground itself.
Next month, the Clintons will replicate the feat and help their party three-peat for the first time since 1948.
Concerns about the amount of forests and peat lands cleared for plantations have plagued the palm oil industry for years.
"Hockey's been the greatest thing in my life, but it's also been the worst thing in my life," Peat said.
The plight of Kevin Pierce's Minnesota peat-mining business illustrates how shifting regulatory targets can harm property owners and entrepreneurs.
"They take thousands of years to develop," said Merritt Turetsky, a peat researcher at the University of Guelph in Ontario.
Even their mode of creation — of plant matter decaying into crepuscular peat — seems to connote darkness and hostility to life.
It also contributed to the financing of a 70MW peat to power project being built in the country's southern province.
Thousands of years' worth of wet accumulated plant matter known as peat is drying out and burning in unprecedented wildfires.
Kobe was both for us, especially if you called LA home during the 3-peat era of the early 20093s.
Toronto's mayor "has raised this issue repeatedly with the federal government," the mayor's spokesman, Don Peat, wrote in an email.
But sawgrass marsh is usually inundated with water, and as long as there's enough vegetation, the peat won't burn off.
Looking over the rain forest from above, predictable linear patterns of another Yaguas jewel emerge: peat bogs, only recently discovered.
We didn't want the peat or smoke that you would typically find, since I wanted this to be mixed into cocktails.
Vast fires burning both boreal forest and peat soils have consumed parts of eastern Siberia, Alaska and even Greenland since June.
The certification is given to palm oil farmed in a condition where there was no fire, land conflict, deforestation or peat.
A simplified map of the Congo Basin peatland: Peat swamp forest (pink); open water (blue); savanna (yellow); other tropical forest (green).
I asked him if he was familiar with the concepts of a "three-peat" or "hat trick," but he just shrugged.
"THREE-PEAT" Since making her debut at the 2013 world championships, the 19-year-old Biles has become an unstoppable force.
Land is cleared inside Indonesia's Singkil peat swamp — habitat of the Sumatran orangutan — to make way for palm oil production, Nov.
Starting left guard Andrus Peat missed practice Wednesday with a quad injury, but he returned for a limited session on Thursday.
In South-East Asia, peat fires are caused by local environmental change, including drainage and deforestation to make way for crops.
Peat says his only involvement in the latest episode was as a driver who unwittingly gave someone else a getaway ride.
"Dawson's the one thing that actually pulls him out of it, because he demands that you walk him," Walter Peat said.
You can usually find everything you need, from succulent-specific dirt to peat moss in one corner of the hardware chain.
As the fires burn, they also consume peat, or the degraded biomass that gives Scotch its distinctive taste and stores carbon.
And the carbon emissions from burning peat aren't the only aspect of the Arctic fires that will make the planet warmer.
Peat is generally resistant to burning, because sphagnum moss, which is dominant in a healthy bog, holds a lot of water.
"Peat fires burn 'old' carbon," Smith said in an email, meaning that the carbon has taken thousands of years to accumulate.
Each year, Aivar told me, dying vegetation pushes the Kuresoo's 20-foot-thick repository of peat skyward by about one millimeter.
At the time of the article, in June 2016, Stephen Peat was 36 and experiencing debilitating headaches and violent mood swings.
Indonesia, with 50 million acres of swampy peatlands, has the most peat in Asia and probably the most among tropical countries.
The carbon in peat was removed from the atmosphere when the vegetation was growing, hundreds or even thousands of years ago.
And yet in 2000, as the peat fires raged aboveground and below, Suhadi could see only that none of that mattered.
The Lakers' championships in three consecutive seasons — 1999-2000, 2000-193, 2001-02 — represent the league's only three-peat this century.
The current study used satellite imaging and analysis to determine the extent of the peat, which is about 55,000 square miles.
She was whole and intact, cocooned in peat, curled like a sleeping child, with her head turned west of her pelvis.
Up to 2018, the agency had restored around 679,000 hectares of peatland, Nazir Foead, head of the Peat Restoration Agency, said.
Gordon described it as having a lot of smoky, fiery notes, due to the peat that is used in the malting process.
Horse race lovers are hoping to see a three-peat as Justify lines up to compete at the Belmont Stakes in June.
It posits Franzen as a heroic excavator of talent, fishing Zink out of obscurity like a bog person out of the peat.
" By the time they disbanded in 2014, they had never quite escaped the peat bog that is being a middling "buzz band.
One Jack Conway—a turf or peat cutter—made a startling discovery in Emlagh bog earlier this month whilst cutting some turf.
That's because the peat found in bogs is made up of compressed plant matter, which is cool, acidic, and contains little oxygen.
The N.H.L.'s Players' Emergency Assistance Fund, meant as temporary relief for struggling former players, provided a few monthly payments, Peat said.
Thomas Smith, who studies peat fires at the London School of Economics, isn't usually phased by the scarier aspects of climate change.
Peat is made up of sphagnum and other mosses, which hold a large amount of water and contain compounds that inhibit decomposition.
A relatively small amount of peat is mined to burn as fuel, to improve backyard gardens or to add smokiness to Scotch.
Guess that just means Peele has something to shoot for when he comes back for a three-peat on his next movie.
Just before noon on Sunday, a blaze broke out in the large peat bog, which is outside of Vancouver, and quickly spread.
But the air was pungent with the odor of diesel fuel and churned-up earth covered with peat moss, the truck's cargo.
You can mix your own well-draining soil using gravel or sand, peat moss and regular indoor potting soil (emphasis on indoor).
The Indonesian government is committed to reducing deforestation and restricting additional exploitation of peat land and primary forests for palm oil plantations.
The room has a peat-burning black box stove that warms fingers and toes after a soppy stroll along the coastal cliffs.
Vast tracts of peat in Indonesia, for instance, have been drained for oil-palm production, leading to fires and rapid carbon release.
Rather, Mr. Bjorn said, it grows some of its organic berries in containers in beds of peat moss, coconut fiber or mulch.
The bog was still bubbling, pieces of her sinking back into the black peat, when he turned on his heel and ran.
As saltwater plows inland, it is triggering the collapse of thick, organic peat soils, which in turn leads to more loss of land.
There are two events that can kill a wildfire for good: extreme rainfall and a lack of peat to keep the fire going.
The most important of these, Mr Gove says, is "environmental protection and enhancement", such as planting woods, restoring peat bogs or maintaining hedgerows.
Indonesia last year suffered the worst forest blazes in four years when 1.6 million hectares of its forests and peat lands were burned.
Bord na Móna, the body responsible for developing Ireland's peatlands, has said it will stop extracting peat for electricity by the same year.
But I also learned how the interaction between Scotland's saline breezes and smoky peat releases that plastic-iodine flavor I know so well.
The good news is, there's still time to prevent peat fires from singlehandedly undoing everything we've done to cut back on fossil fuels.
The sword is badly corroded, but considering it's been buried in a peat bog for over 600 years, its condition is rather remarkable.
While that's certainly fortuitous, it's worth noting that peat bogs play an important environmental role, capable of mitigating the effects of climate change.
Ruud and her boyfriend of several months, local firefighter Robert Peat Jr., told sheriff deputies they last saw the girl at 11 p.m.
I am an American and when I won the 1000m in 2010 I became the first American to 2-peat in that event.
For instance, the official tartan of the Keepers is said to represent Scotch—blue for water, gold for barley, and brown for peat.
Michigan (27-5), the third seed, won the last two conference tournaments and looked poised for a three-peat during a dominating performance.
Peat prefers to drive his GMC pickup everywhere, rather than sharing a ride, because he wants the freedom to leave at any time.
While we're talking, at least four people drop into Zionly to say hello, and Peat greets each of them with a huge smile.
Peat was primarily an enforcer, a player designated to drop his gloves and square off in fist-to-fist combat with an opponent.
Don't expect the Warriors to do that, though, if their dreams of a three-peat are indeed crushed in a mere five games.
"People know that if they come with us, they will get more out of it," said Daisy Peat, one of The Cultivist's founders.
When peat becomes dry enough to burn, it can continue to combust underground long after the trees on the surface have been doused.
Tropical rainforests and peatlands — wetland ecosystems that contain peat, a spongy, organic material formed by partially decayed plants — store huge amounts of carbon.
As successive generations of mangroves grew to replace those that drowned, rotting roots and leaves produced thick layers of peat that's rich in carbon.
In some places, tufts of sawgrass stand nearly a foot above the peat; their long white roots exposed like teeth with receding gum lines.
Sonnet XII Global woman, waxy apple, record heat,thick smell of algae, burnt peat and sunset,what rich nitrogen opens between your native trees?
The burning peat and the melting snow and ice will only contribute more to climate change, which catalyzed the fires in the first place.
Gauci currently is working on the Indonesian island of Sumatra with the owners of huge plantations of acacia trees growing on drained peat bogs.
He pointed to Moscow as an example: in 2010, peat fires broke out around the city, and about 3,000 people died from the smoke.
Some of the dishes are available all the time—like the smutton, for example—but otherwise, Peat likes to create new options every day.
They were built to store a whole range of things on which the islanders depended: grains, ropes, salted seabirds, cured fish, peat, seabirds' eggs.
The Saints are banged up inside, with right guard Larry Warford (knee) hurt just as left guard Andrus Peat (broken arm) nears a return.
House Greyjoy's whiskey, naturally, contains "maritime" notes, per its press release — meaning you'll taste that delicious briney, peat moss flavor that Talisker is known for.
The problem for the Venus Fly Trap is that the peat bogs of the Carolinas do not have a sufficient supply of Nitrogen or Phosphorous.
Peat soil covers about 3 percent of the Earth's surface, but it contains more carbon than is stored in all the plants and trees worldwide.
Right now, there's almost nothing the Tasmanian Fire Service can do about the remote wildfires, many of which are burning through carbon-rich peat underground.
Indonesia, in particular, has been reeling from the drought, with massive forest and peat fires that have had much of Southeast Asia gasping for air.
Walter Peat, 173, the head saw filer at a sawmill here in the suburbs of Vancouver, worries every day about the son he barely recognizes.
And NBA legend Michael Jordan retired for a second time, ending his comeback that saw him lead the Chicago Bulls to a second three-peat.
The shoes made only one on-court appearance during his very last game with the Bulls — the team won their second "three-peat" that game.
Dried peat emits carbon dioxide, and to prevent that, the Indonesia government is requiring peatland concession holders to plug drains and raise the water table.
They don't always produce massive flames, but in terms of how much fuel they eat up, peat fires are the biggest fires we know of.
They used satellite imagery as well as slogging into the swamps and drilled by hand with coring devices to collect samples and identify the peat.
Kobe Bryant has another three-peat under his belt ... 'cause his wife, Vanessa, has given birth to the couple's third child ... TMZ Sports has learned.
Their quest for a three-peat ended Monday, and the Penguins were warmly applauded by their fans when they left the ice after the game.
A team had to hunt for signs in the peat deposits far below ground for clues about where water used to move through the site.
One eBay user wanted $21 million for a basketball signed by Bryant and the rest of the Lakers' 2002 "3-peat" championship team on Wednesday.
The modular packages contain the seeds, peat moss, and fertilizer, and come in 20 varieties of lettuces and herbs including romaine, arugula, chicory, and basil.
Similarly, the amount of cereal pollen -- which can be found in lake or peat sediment -- did not decrease as it had during the Black Death.
If the fire burns straight down the stalks of sawgrass and scorches the peat soil, that would send the stored carbon back into the atmosphere.
Radiocarbon dating indicates that the peat started accumulating 10,600 years ago, coincident with the onset of the Holocene epoch, which brought humid conditions to central Africa.
In 2016, a 2,000-year-old 20-pound chunk of butter was unearthed from a peat bog in Ireland, which was said to still be edible.
Flames are not only licking 1,000 year-old trees, they're burning through the deep, carbon rich peat that's been accumulating on the forest floor for millennia.
She, flanked by her ponies, collected peat, made fishing lines to catch dinner and learned about the role of Shetlands in crofting, a form of farming.
Despite coming close, Donald was mostly kept in check, but he should be more dangerous with left guard Andrus Peat playing through a broken hand. 5.
Both GECAS and AerCap trace their roots to the collapsed (Guinness Peat Aviation) (GPA) leasing empire of Irish leasing baron, Tony Ryan, over two decades ago.
The former N.H.L. enforcer Stephen Peat, 36, stood with his father, Walter, inside a maze of studded walls that formed the shell of their new house.
The tenant, gone at the time of the fire, lost his belongings, including a truck in the driveway, and later sued Stephen Peat in civil court.
She began leading us past tidal pools and along the beach, a mix of silt and peat held together by the thin roots of marsh grasses.
Roderick and his family brave feudal conditions, toiling as tenant farmers on a small allotment, harvesting peat for fuel and scavenging seaweed to fertilize their gardens.
But when it was no longer profitable to dig out the peat, many of the areas were deserted, said Jozef Bednar, project manager for Wetlands International.
Or when the "culinary" offerings are peat-smoked oysters, fresh nasturtium leaves, haunch of venison, and whisky that's been mellowed in oak casks for eight years.
Felix Loch of Germany won the gold medal in men's singles in 2010 and 2014 and is in the mix for a three-peat this year.
A so-called "three-peat" would be rare: Only five times since 238 has a team won the Stanley Cup in three or more consecutive seasons.
Out there beyond the town the peat diggers uncover the skeletons of entire chain gangs, the tiny bodies of unwanted children, the corpses of abortions, bastards.
Exploitation of this peat to burn for energy and as a growing medium in horticulture damages these peatlands and releases harmful carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
By the end of May, those companies had restored 258,695 hectares of peat area and are expected to restore another 150,000 hectares by December, Foead said.
How they did it: Finnish scientists collected 16 samples of peat from Finland's Lapland region and slowly warmed them from underneath to simulate thawing in the lab.
Peat fires in 2015 were estimated to have caused up to 100,000 premature deaths, according to the World Resources Institute, and cost the Indonesian economy $16.5 billion.
The fires in the Arctic burn through carbon-rich peat soil, releasing stored carbon and contributing to a feedback loop that makes it get hotter and hotter.
It's probably a good bet that, if they pull a three-peat as champs, the Warriors will once again skip a Trump visit next season, as well. 
Peat fires produce much more carbon dioxide and methane from the combustion of carbon that has been locked in the ground for hundreds or thousands of years.
Such was Mr. Hutton's eye that the often gritty urban landscapes of his city films can seem as natural as a peat bog or a rain forest.
In June, the trees were no longer on fire outside the town, but crews were overturning peat with backhoes in an effort to extinguish smoldering hot spots.
Over the decades, millions of acres have been drained and used for agriculture, forestry and the extraction of peat, a fuel used for heating and electrical energy.
The World Bank has estimated that 2.6 million hectares of land in Indonesia was destroyed during 2015 forest and peat land fires, causing damage worth $16 billion.
The phrases "peatland" and "forest" have distinct legal meanings in Indonesia, he claimed; not all treed areas are forests, and not all peat-filled bogs are peatland.
On Tuesday morning, Peat Jost, a spokesman for the Zurich police, confirmed in a phone interview that the gunman was the man whose body had been found.
There was no buoy other than this boy, who had gripped her with his thin, freckled arms, bellying her out of the peat bog and into time.
The rear private garden has a mature cherry tree and organic soil that Ms. Knudsen shipped from Maine, because it had bits of colorful seashells and peat.

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