The deforestation, especially for oil palm, to provide biofuel for Western countries is what's causing these problems.

Coal. Hint of silt.

We build cities, suburbs, and farms on top of frog habitat and chop forests and drain the wetlands that serve as home for numerous amphibian populations.

Yes, sir. Cranberry bogs.

Forest

The sun and a damp climate made the tropical rainforest.

The way through the marshes.

Tesla's insight was profound.

The ground is still wet.

Trapped underneath the boreal forest and wetlands of northern Alberta are these vast reserves of this sticky, tar like bitumen.

Bacillus pasteurii, a micro organism that is readily available in wetlands and marshes, and does precisely that.

A picture that you're familiar with the Amazon rainforests.

Wherever I'm needed, brother.

to bear spores that foreshadowed seeds.

The men will carry the barks to the swamp.

Tropical rainforests produce oxygen and consume carbon dioxide.

The coal belt in Northern China,

It gets very humid here in the summer.

And our brains our celebrated brains reflect a drainage of a tidal marsh.

And you can look at what a wet meadow needs.

Moisture is the essence of wetness,

Here's a design for distilling water using sunlight.

When the snow melts, they'll drown in the Polish marshes.

Bogs and rope, and goodness knows what.

The men are happy to go on the swamp.

That was the last goose on the swamp.

It's the damp, I expect... That's the curse of basements.

And in the case of the Viking Norse, the Vikings inadvertently caused soil erosion and deforestation, which was a particular problem for them because they required forests to make charcoal, to make iron.

We have environments where humidity is guaranteed throughout the year.

Festering, stinking marshland as far as the eye can see.

As the men went out to cross the swamp.

It was quite simple.

HUMIDITY

Rel. Humidity

I just decided to click on the word tropical.

A meat eater in this room will consume, on average, 8,000 animals in their lifetime.

Hayashi hitched a ride on one of the dump trucks.

Paint a selection with a brush

This is all Forest Service land.

Extractivism Settlement Project, Praia Alta Piranheira.

And right now this is in the Okavango Delta in Botswana.

They're off digging for swamp nuts.

Forest

In the woods.

They have exactly the same amount of carbon.