《人造风景》是一部艺术电影，该片为爱德华•伯汀斯基的关于中国的静态照片赋予了生命，揭示了一个处于危机中的全球化世界的陌生的亲密，山姆•吉尔说。
Manufactured Landscapes, an art film that brings to life Edward Burtynsky’s still photographs of China, exposes the strange intimacies of a globalised world in crisis, says Sam Geall.
埃德•克鲁克斯撰文称，巴西用甘蔗生产乙醇，美国和欧洲可以向巴西乙醇更多地开放市场。这并非解决危机的万全之策，但能有所帮助。
The United States and Europe could open their markets to more Brazilian ethanol made from sugar cane, writes Ed Crooks. It’s not the whole answer to the crisis, but it can help.
回家探亲的刘鉴强起初没有想到要和母亲谈及全球变暖的话题。出乎预料的是，这位农村老太太向儿子生动地讲述了她对气候变化危害的感受。
Going home to visit his parents in rural China, Liu Jianqiang did not expect to have a discussion about global warming. But his mother's memories, he found, painted an intimate portrait of a changing country – and a changing climate.
尽管布什政府在全球变暖问题上一直采取不妥协的态度，但是政府内部的争论正在升温。弗朗西斯•百内基看到了美国气候政策发生巨变的曙光。
Despite the Bush administration’s history of intransigence on global warming, the debate in government is heating up. Frances Beinecke sees the dawning of a dramatic change in US policy on climate.
杰米•雷纳把一座拥挤、肮脏、充斥犯罪的南美城市改造成了一个举世闻名的绿色生活和社会改革的典范。他对汤姆•菲利普斯说，任何一个大城市在三年之内都能做到这一点。
Jaime Lerner transformed a congested, grimy, crime-ridden South American city into a world-renowned model of green living and social innovation. Any big urban area can do the same in under three years, he tells Tom Phillips.
去年5月1日，英格兰西南部的莫德伯里成为欧洲第一个禁止塑料袋的城镇。一年过去了，这里的消费者和商家的生活有什么变化，居民们的下一个目标又是什么呢？汉娜•普尔报道。
A year after Modbury in southwestern England became the first town in Europe to ban plastic bags, Hannah Pool pays a visit to see how life has changed for shoppers and traders. What will the residents target next?
星期四是中国信息自由的一个重要里程碑。马军解释说，由于新的透明度管理条例开始生效，将为公众监督企业的环境表现提供一个有力的手段。
Thursday marked an important milestone for freedom of information in China. As new transparency regulations become effective, Ma Jun explains, they will provide an powerful lever for the public to monitor companies’ environmental performance.
透明度高的新法令的实施将促进地方社区参与环保。中国的绿色组织自然之友对政府的有关努力表示欢迎。
New transparency regulations will help local communities become more involved in environmental affairs. Friends of Nature, a Chinese green group, welcomes the government’s efforts.
中国珠三角地区的居民每天都在经受严重空气污染的折磨。但其中很少有人能意识到这样的污染状况和致命的环境灾难之间只有一步之遥。唐昊说，必须提高地区空气监测标准才能有助缓解这一情形。
Residents of the Pearl River delta suffer serious air pollution every day. But, writes Tang Hao, few understand how near they are to potential disaster. China must improve its standards of monitoring.
约翰•尔金顿称，一种新型的企业领导者正在倡导新的技术、价值和商业模式。环保人士开始不再把市场视为敌人，而是了解人们需求的有效倾听手段。
A new breed of business leader is pioneering new technology, value and business models, says John Elkington. Environmentalists are starting to view the market not as the enemy, but an effective listening device for understanding people’s needs.
至年初官方严打危害食品安全犯罪起，已有900余人因生产销售假肉而被捕，其中更有甚者以老鼠肉冒充羊肉。
After more than 900 arrests over the selling of fake meat, including rat as mutton, officials face an uphill battle to change a fraudulent culture
人类在过去100中的过度捕捞导致了鳕鱼、鲨鱼、金枪鱼和箭鱼等大型鱼类数目急剧减少。
A century of overfishing by humans has seen a vast reduction in the numbers of large fish, such as cod, sharks, tuna and swordfish
在过去的五年，洪水和暴风等自然灾害已造成中国近5000万人流离失所。
Natural hazards like floods and storms have forced almost 50 million people in China from their homes over past five years
印度农业遭遇危机，农民自杀事件接连发生，兰詹娜•帕迪的新作《遗孀》讲述了这一背景下妇女的艰难处境。
Written against the backdrop of continuing suicides among Indian farmers, a new book describes the impact of the country’s agricultural crisis on women
短评 in brief
如果人类不能消除对生态和地球系统的无知，世界将会怎样？卡斯帕•亨德森认为，弗雷德•古特尔的《物种的命运》一书对最坏的情形进行了令人惊心的概述。
The Fate of the Species by Fred Guterl is a bracing overview of the worst that can happen if humans do not overcome their ecological and Earth-systems illiteracy, writes Caspar Henderson.
