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From: sammy™ -_-1/31/2007 3:35:11 PM
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Scientists from Wetlands International released their bombshell calculation about the global emissions that palm farming on peat land caused. Peat is an organic sponge that stores huge amounts of carbon, thereby helping to balance global emissions. Peat land is 90 percent water. But when it is drained, those stored gases are released into the atmosphere. To make matters worse, once dried, peat land is often burned to clear ground for plantations. In recent years Indonesia has been plagued by polluting wildfires so intense that they send thick clouds of smoke over much of Asia

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