Worldwide , peatlands cover approximately 1.2 million square miles of land -- about 2 percent of the planet 's land mass .
全球有近120万平方英里的泥炭沼泽，约占地球大陆面积的2%。
For now , the forests , peatlands and all the wildlife living within them continue to suffer from deforestation fuelled by companies like app .
现在，雨林、泥炭地和所有生活在期间的野生动物仍在遭受像app这样的公司带来的采伐破坏。
An unusually hot summer set such fires across the country and the peatlands around moscow generated a smog that blanketed the city with carbon monoxide and soot .
On the upside , thawed soils will allow shrubs and other plants to begin to march north , a process that is already happening , as well as the creation of new peatlands , which can store a lot of carbon .
Recent events include a record-breaking heatwave that has seen moscow blanketed with smog from burning peatlands , the splintering of a giant island of ice from the greenland ice cap , and floods in pakistan that have claimed the lives of at least 1600 people and left 20 million homeless .
