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中国频繁发生“水战争”

2010年3月5日

水库和水力发电站正在中华大地四处开花，也因此引发了工程建设破坏生态的争论和地区间的冲突。冯永锋认为，我们应该让河流回复宁静。

Wringing China dry

March 05, 2010

Reservoirs and hydropower stations are sprouting up all over China, damaging ecosystems and causing conflict. It’s time to leave the rivers alone, says Feng Yongfeng.

美国丰富的页岩气资源（1）

2010年2月23日

在路易斯安那州的偏远地区，能源公司正手握大把钞票来争夺一种新型的、储量丰富的天然气资源。这一发现对全球都具有重要意义。请看希拉・麦克纳尔蒂的报道。

America’s shale-gas bonanza (1)

February 23, 2010

In the backwoods of Louisiana, energy companies are handing out money in their dash to tap a vast new source of gas. The discovery has global implications, Sheila McNulty reports.

干旱时期的安全问题（1）

2010年2月9日

中国的稳定发展面临着气候变化所带来的新的严峻考验。本文共分三部分。在第一部分中，斯科特・摩尔认为首要议题就是水资源的问题。

Security in a drier age (1)

February 09, 2010

Climate change poses new – and serious – barriers to China’s plans for stable development. In the first segment of a three-part article, Scott Moore says water will top the agenda.

地球的热带地区”正在扩大”

据法新社援引澳大利亚研究报道，气候变化正在使地球热带地区的面积迅速扩大，人口稠密地区面临疾病和干旱危机。研究人员得出结论，热带地区在过去25年已扩大了500公里。该区域目前已延伸到北回归线至南回归线地带以外。

Earth’s tropical zone “is expanding”

Climate change is rapidly expanding the size of the earth's tropical zone, threatening to bring disease and drought to heavily populated areas, Agence France-Presse reported, citing an Australian study. Researchers concluded that the tropics had widened by up to 500 kilometres in the past 25 years. The zone now extends well beyond the band circling the planet between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.

饥饿"或会主宰二十一世纪的命运"

《卫报》援引乐施会的报告报道，由于气候变化，农民难以种植足够的食物，饥饿或会成为"本世纪关键性的人类灾祸"。乐施会说，世界上一些主要粮食作物将受到旱灾及降雨模式变化的影响，这对于数百万人的影响将是灾祸性的。
 

Hunger “may define 21st century”

As the earth's climate changes and farmers struggle to grow enough food, hunger may become “the defining human tragedy of this century”, the Guardian reported, citing a report by Oxfam International. Some of the world's staple crops will be affected by drought and altered rainfall patterns, Oxfam said, and the implications for millions of people could be disastrous.

格陵兰附近海冰创八百年来最低

«科学日报»援引一份发表于«气候动力学»杂志的研究指出，在格陵兰与挪威斯瓦尔巴特群岛之间北冰洋上的海冰目前处于十三世纪以来最低的水平。这项丹麦发现是以自然本身气候的“档案”，冰核、树木年轮、船只航海日志和港口记录为基础。

Ice near Greenland at “800-year low”

Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean between Greenland and the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago is now at its lowest level since the 13th century, according to research published in the journal Climate Dynamics, according to ScienceDaily. The Danish findings are based on nature’s own climate “archive” – ice cores and tree rings – as well as ships’ log books and harbour records.