Ⅲ.阅读理解How much do you know about the Netherlands (荷兰)? Is it famous for windmills (风车) or tulips (郁金香)? Maybe both of them. But in fact, the country offers much more than that.The Netherlands lies at the mouth of the Rhine River (莱茵河). It is an entrance to northwest...
42 chemical factory fire in Switzerland made the pollution problem much 43( bad)killing millions of fish and wildlife along the river.After the 1986 fire, the Rhine Action Plan was put into place to clean up the river.Today, the river isn't completely pollution-free, but the salmon(鲑鱼)...
With increasing distance from the river mouth (Lake Ketelmeer) to Lake IJsselmeer a decrease of the degree of pollution for this young layer is found. Internal carbonate production and the mixing with eroded sediment from other areas seem responsible for the dilution of this deposit....
Throughout its organised inhabited history, the Netherlands and its people have been on the crossroads of differing influences. Around the turn of the first millennium of the Common Era, Germanic tribes bordered the Roman civilisation along the Rhine river. During the Middle Ages, semi-independent ...
42 chemical factory fire in Switzerland made the pollution problem much 43( bad)killing millions of fish and wildlife along the river.After the 1986 fire, the Rhine Action Plan was put into place to clean up the river.Today, the river isn't completely pollution-free, but the salmon(鲑鱼)...
The embanked floodplains of the lower Rhine river in the Netherlands contain large amounts of heavy metals, which is a result of many years of deposition of contaminated overbank sediments. The metal pollution varies greatly between the various floodplain sections as well as in vertical direction...
The hydrology of The Netherlands and of Dutch wetlands is dominated by the river Rhine. Hence, nutrients and contaminants imported by the Rhine and from other sources have a major impact on Dutch wetlands. Reduction of pollution and eutrophication is a major requirement for conservation of Dutch ...
etymology: the country name literally means "the lowlands" and refers to the geographic features of the land being both flat and down river from higher areas (i.e., at the estuaries of the Scheldt, Meuse, and Rhine Rivers; only about half of the Netherlands is more than 1 meter above ...
Lauwersmeer is also a designated Dark Sky Park, where an absence of light pollution makes for great stargazing. 5. De Weerribben-Wieden National Park De Weerribben-Wieden National Park In Overijssel you can voyage through Northwest Europe’s largest fen. The scenery here is both beautiful and ...
have been introduced locally or reintroduced. Some reptiles and amphibians are endangered. Numerous species of river fish and river lobsters have become scarce because ofwater pollution. There is adiversityof brackish and freshwater animals inhabiting the many lakes, canals, and drainage ditches, but...