Every year, humans destroy approximately 10 million hectares of trees, a land area roughly the size of Portugal.人类每年摧毁约1000万公顷的树木，大致相当于葡萄牙的国土面积。By destroying the world's forests, humans are eradicating one of the planet's primary carbon sinks.由于对森林的毁坏，人类正在...
①Thankfully, there is a way out of this trap—but it involves striking a subtle balance.②Helping forests flourish as valuable “carbon sinks” long into the future may require reducing their capacity to absorb carbon now.③California is leading the way, as it does on so many climate effor...
continue to occur due to the demand for wood, food, fuel, fibre and urbanization. At the same time, climate change is also bringing increasingly severe challenges to the health of forest ecosystems. How to promote forests to...
ivory , silver , gold , and copper.These things were not found on Crete so the people valued them . The Minoans grew rich through trade.The Minoan civilization became more advanced over time . They had a system of writing and create...
GERRI WHITLEY —GETTY IMAGES Grasslands get more rain than deserts do. They get less rain than forests. Grasslands are found between deserts and forests. More than Grass DEAN_FIKAR—GETTY IMAGES Grasslands grow all kinds of plants. Wildflowers grow there. Bushes do too. Sometimes, there are tr...
Then Iotus-gathering fIashed into my mind.This was an oId custom south of the Yangtse,which apparentIy originated very earIy and was most popuIar in the period of the Six Kingdoms,as we see from the songs of the time.The Iotus were picked by girIs in smaII boats,who sang haunting ...
Visitation has been steadily increasing over the last few years, and this year is setting all-time records. If you’re unfamiliar with the history of the National Park Service, I strongly encourage you to watch “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.” This Ken Burns miniseries provides ...
7 hours. If the storage time can be extended in the future, the substitution of this light energy for fossil energy will be more significant. For the development of new energy, China has its own development pattern, in which China's industrial policies played a very important role. For ...
The New Normal: The Senate Of The Living Dead In the 1968 film classicThe Night Of The Living Dead,the dead have come back to life and are marching through forests and farms looking for food. They look just like us except for the eyes, the drooling, and the rotten tattered clothes th...
To make matters worse, Earth's forests have been disappearing, slowly at first, but in the last couple of centuries quite rapidly. 更糟的是,地球上的森林在不断消失,起先是慢慢地消失,但在近一两个世纪里其消失的速度相当快。 Right now it is disappearing at the rate of sixty-four acres per...