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RUSSIA does not normally spring to mind as being in the forefront of the fight against climate change. The citizens of Moscow, however, need no explanation of one aspect of the problem—the importance of wetlands. Earlier this year they had an abrupt and lethal lesson on the dangers of peat-bog fires. 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. By August 9th the daily death rate had climbed to 700, twice the normal level for that time of the year.
Whether peat-bog fires are being encouraged by climate change is debatable. But it is clear that they release prodigious quantities of climate-changing carbon dioxide when they happen. And even in the absence of fire, draining peatlands—for example, for agriculture—liberates a lot of carbon dioxide. In Russia such drainage is reckoned to free 160m tonnes of the gas every year. In Indonesia the figure is 508m tonnes. All told, the global total is about 1.3 billion tonnes𔃎% of man-made carbon-dioxide emissions even without the effect of fire. That is far more than the contribution made by aviation, for example.

A. 어휘
habitat 생물의 환경, 서식지. conservation 보존. matter 중요하다.
Peat 土炭(토탄). bog 습지, 沼澤地(소택지). aspect 樣相(양상).
wetlands 습지. abrupt 뜻밖의, 突然(돌연)한. lethal 치명적인.
peatlands 土炭(토탄)지대. generate 生成(생성)하다.
blanket 담요로 덮듯이 온통 싸다. carbon monoxide 一酸化炭素(일산화탄소).
soot 검댕, 煤煙(매연). prodigious 거대한. carbon dioxide 이산화탄소.
draining 물을 빼다, 排水(배수)하다. reckon 평가하다, 계산하다, 생각하다.
free 방출하다. figure 數値(수치). All told=if all is told 합산하면.
emissions 發散(발산), 排出(배출). aviation 비행, 항공.