peat

They burn the entire area which doesn't just burn the trees, but also a huge amount of peat.

Maybe peat as well - it's still a fairly common fuel in the wilder parts of Scotland.

It's mostly coal and gas, but the damage done to the environment by mining peat is downplayed a lot here.

Very Islay-like though (a lot of peat, and probably the opposite of your sherried sweetness) which is not to everyone's taste.

Regarding peat swamps, they are less valuable in that the land isn't being farmed.

How is turning boreal peat forests into palm oil plantations equal to capital extraction?

Radiocarbon dating is routinely done on such things as shells, shipwrecks, peat, mud, and groundwater.

The dutch burnt a lot of peat in the old days.

I don't think there is any lack of peat in Scotland - I guess what there is a lack of is areas where people are happy to ruin the landscape to harvest peat.

Coal is being phased out, and peat generally not expanded.

The cold smell of potato mold, the squelch and slap Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge Through living roots awaken in my head.

The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge Through living roots awaken in my head.

Transformation of "unvaluable and useless" peat swamps to productive oil palm plantations often, but not always, involves altering the water table of the forest, which causes a massive increase in CO2 (peat is an incredible carbon sink) as well as widespread fires.

"Wall Street" type jobs make a great example here: say you earn $1M in a year by, say, funding expansive oil palm plantation development in southeast asian peat swamps.

I remember the chemist who ran the lab at the maltings joking about the "romance" of "throwing another peat on the fire" when it reality the analysis was all done very carefully and scientifically with gas chromatography being used to control peat levels.

Peat accounts for close to 10% of the energy sources in Ireland.