For Peat’s Sake
Bogs exist in the liminal space between water and land, haunted by will-o’-the-wisps and home to carnivorous plants, equally ready to suck in unsuspecting wanderers or disgorge eerily preserved ancient artifacts—or bodies.
沼泽存在于水与陆地之间的边缘空间中，常有鬼火出没，也是食虫植物的家园，它们同样准备好吸入毫无戒心的流浪者或吐出保存得诡异的古代文物或尸体。
Long relegated to the purview of horror films or dismissed as wastelands, bogs have been sites of historical resistance and refuge in the past while quietly resisting the greatest threat to humanity in the present: climate change.
沼泽地长期以来一直被视为恐怖电影的范畴或被视为荒地，过去一直是历史抵抗和避难所，同时又默默地抵抗着当今人类面临的最大威胁：气候变化。
Bogs sequester a third of the world’s soil carbon while only covering a measly three percent of the Earth’s surface, but their reach is under even more threat due to peat harvesting and palm oil plantations.
沼泽固存了世界三分之一的土壤碳，但只覆盖了地球表面的区区百分之三，但由于泥炭采伐和棕榈油种植园，沼泽的覆盖范围受到更大的威胁。
The ecologist Merritt Turetsky has spent decades studying the peaty places of the world, untangling sphagnum moss and dissecting cores from the boreal forests of Canada to the jungles of Borneo.
生态学家梅里特·图雷茨基花了几十年的时间研究世界上的泥炭地区，解开泥炭藓并解剖从加拿大北方森林到婆罗洲丛林的岩芯。
Her new book, Bogland, is both a love song to the lands of peat and a plea for preservation.
她的新书《博格兰》既是一首对泥炭土地的情歌，也是对保护的呼吁。
“Neither alive nor dead, suspended between present and past, peat is one of the strongest and most resilient resources on our planet,” she writes.
“泥炭既不生也不死，悬浮在现在和过去之间，是我们星球上最强大、最具弹性的资源之一，”她写道。
“And yet, it is easily destroyed by human hands.”
“然而，它很容易被人手摧毁。”
Merritt Turetsky is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she runs the very boggy Ecosystem Analysis Lab
梅里特·图雷茨基 (Merritt Turetsky) 是科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的教授，她在那里经营着一个非常沼泽的生态系统分析实验室
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