Sentences with phrase «while peat bogs»

Not exact matches

This is not to say we can bandy hard words about the Amazon rainforest at Brazil while we stand in a glass citadel by a peat bog that's fast becoming fuel for our fires.

While they cover only 6 percent of the world's surface, wetlands — marshes, peat bogs, swamps, river deltas, mangroves, tundra, lagoons and river floodplains — are estimated to hold 771 gigatons of greenhouse gases, or 10 - 20 percent of the globe's terrestrial carbon.