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A Regional-Scale Index for Assessing the Exposure of Drinking-Water Sources to Wildfires
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Recent human-interface wildfires around the world have raised concerns regarding the reliability of freshwater supply flowing from severely burned watersheds. Degraded source water quality can often...
C-PEAT
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C-PEAT, in collaboration with PAGES and Future Earth, is taking part in the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change ( COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, in November 2021. Our team is...
Global Peatlands Assessment: The State of the World’s Peatlands
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Peatlands are unique and rare ecosystems that, despite only covering around 3-4% of the planet’s land surface, they contain up to one-third of the world’s soil carbon, which is twice the amount of...
Local Hydroclimatic Influence on Black Spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) Anatomical Traits in Two Boreal Fen Peatlands
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As global temperatures increase, ongoing research is essential in understanding the long-term effects of climate change on tree dominated wetlands. Acting as a significant landform in the boreal...
Peatland Atlas: Facts and Figures About Wet Climate Guardians
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Although peatlands cover only 3% of the world's land, they store about twice as much carbon as in the biomass of all the world's forests combined. Thus, they are incredibly important especially for...
Peatland Atlas: Facts and Figures About Wet Climate Guardians
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Although peatlands cover only 3% of the world's land, they store about twice as much carbon as in the biomass of all the world's forests combined. Thus, they are incredibly important especially for...
Peatlands & climate commitments: Enhancing climate action through peatlands
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June 23rd, 2022 at 1:30am MST to June 23rd, 2022 at 9:00am MST
The session will be organized in 2 different occasions on Thursday 23 June 2022 Morning session: 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. CEST/UTC +2 (Rome time) Afternoon session: 15:00 – 17:00 p.m. CEST/UTC +2 (Rome time)...
Recent Climate Change has Driven Divergent Hydrological Shifts in High-latitude Peatlands
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High-latitude peatlands are changing rapidly in response to climate change, including permafrost thaw. Here, we reconstruct hydrological conditions since the seventeenth century using testate amoeba...
Video - Where Do You Look for Evidence of Fires From Thousands of Years Ago?
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This presentation describes how coring lake sediments gives us information on fire history, providing data on fire frequency, severity and what actually burned.