Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - BBCNEWS - 20210325:10:49:00
In northumberland includes the once secret silos of an experimental british rocket launched nuclear missile. and, some now restored bog land. the building blocks of the peatland, the sphagnum masses, which themselves like this one, are absolutely full of water, they are about 90% water. and that water is why bogs are better for the environment than trees. when plants die in a bog, they don't release all their carbon into the atmosphere because they don't rot completely. so unlike a tree, which only stores carbon while it's alive, a bog can store carbon for thousands of years. which explains wh...