{"id":715927,"date":"2022-02-08T12:10:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T16:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=715927"},"modified":"2022-02-08T12:10:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T16:10:05","slug":"greenhouse-gas-emission-impact-from-peatland-fires-underestimated-by-200-300-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=715927","title":{"rendered":"Greenhouse gas emission impact from peatland fires underestimated by 200\u2013300 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deforestation fires in Brazil and Indonesia accounted for 3 percent and 7 percent, respectively, of the planet&#8217;s total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in 2019 and 2020, finds a new study in Frontiers in Climate. Of that amount, fires in peatlands contributed to between 40 percent and 60 percent of the GHG emission impact, showing a severe underrepresentation by previous estimations. The researchers urge better forest and peatland protection policies.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-02-greenhouse-gas-emission-impact-peatland.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Greenhouse gas emission impact from peatland fires underestimated by 200\u2013300 percent<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deforestation fires in Brazil and Indonesia accounted for 3 percent and 7 percent, respectively, of the planet&#8217;s total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in 2019 and 2020, finds a new study&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}