peat
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Researchers, who combined fieldwork with satellite data, suggested that "unusually dry conditions" and "flammable vegetation" enabled the fire to burn deep peat soils.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
The building was made from locally gathered clay and peat, with sedge grass for its thatched roof.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
"So you could be looking at decades, centuries, millennia before the actual lost peat itself begins to build back up."
From BBC • May 2, 2026
To better understand past fire activity, researchers examined charcoal preserved in peat deposits from Central and South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Australasia.
From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026
She found her son surrounded by his father's lords ban- nermen, in a drafty hall with a peat fire smoking in a black hearth.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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