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 .

一个不同寻常的酷暑在全国各地引发了多起类似火灾，而莫斯科周围的泥炭湿地火灾更是让整个城市笼罩在一氧化碳和煤灰的烟雾中。

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 .

另一方面，融化的冻土能够为灌木和其他一些植物扎根北方提供条件，这个过程已经开始，就像新的泥炭地的产生一样，能够储存大量的碳。

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 .

最近发生的极端气候事件包括：泥炭地燃烧散发出笼罩莫斯科的浓烟；巨大的冰岛从格陵兰岛冰盖分离；已经造成至少1600人丧命，2000万人无家可归的巴基斯坦洪水。