The Amazon rainforest

THE summer dry-season, now drawing to an end, is when the Amazon rainforest gets cut and burned.

今夏的干季即将结束，这次干季与砍伐和焚烧亚马逊雨林的时间正好一致。

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Some say that emissions trading under the Kyoto Protocol should be used to preserve intact areas of the Amazon rainforest as well as to restore deforested regions.

有人说，《京都议定书》规定的排放权交易应该被用来保护亚马逊雨林未经开发的地区，以及恢复那些森林已被砍伐的地区。

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This man cures it with three plants from the Amazon Rainforest.

这名药师能用三种亚马逊雨林的草药来进行治疗。

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Once completed, it will provide electricity for 18 million people.The construction is difficult, not only because of the complicated natural environment in the Amazon Rainforest, but also the world's most recognized environmental regulations in Brazil.

项目建成后，可满足1800万人的年用电需求。这个项目难度很大，不仅仅是因为亚马逊雨林当地复杂的自然环境，同时也是因为世界公认的最为严格的环境保护法规。

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The new study is bound to further fuel the debate over whether most of the Amazon rainforest and the associated savannahs are pristine ecosystems.

对于大部分亚马逊雨林地区和周围的大草原是否是原始生态系统，一直存在争论，这项新研究一定会使争论更加激烈。

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This next image that I'm showing you is a map of the Amazon rainforest.

这是亚马逊热带雨林的地图。

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The destruction of the Amazon rainforest to make way for cattle ranches has been directly linked for the first time to patterns of consumption of beef and leather in the developed world, according to campaigners.

社会运动组织首次将毁坏亚马逊热带雨林以腾出地方修建养牛场，与发达国家牛肉及皮革制品的消费模式直接联系在一起。

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Now, there's a flower in the Amazon rainforest called a royal water lily and the characteristics of its flowers change during the pollination process.

在亚马逊森林有一种花叫王莲，它的花朵特性在传粉期间会发生改变。

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According to the study, the soil of the Amazon rainforest is shallow, poor in nutrients and almost without soluble minerals.

根据这项研究，亚马逊雨林的土壤很浅，缺少营养物质，几乎没有可溶性矿物质。

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With the Amazon rainforest experiencing its worst drought for40 years, Brazil has declared many cities in the region's largest state, Amazonas, as disaster areas.

随着亚马逊雨林遇到了40年来最严重的干旱，巴西已经宣布这个地区中最大的州&亚马孙州（Amazonas）的许多城市为受灾区域。

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From here, visitors can explore parts of the Amazon rainforest seen by few outsiders.

由此出发，游客能探索亚马孙雨林极少被外人窥探的部分区域。

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Declining aerosol pollution could make severe drought in the Amazon rainforest more common in the twenty-first century, report scientists in Nature today ( 8 May).

科学家在5月8日出版的《自然》杂志上报告说，在21世纪，气溶胶污染的减少可能让亚马逊雨林的严重干旱更加常见。

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I think the destruction of the Amazon rainforest is really dangerous and it's something we could live to regret.

我觉得亚马逊热带雨林的破坏真的很危险，我们对此悔恨终生。

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This time out, parrots Blu ( Eisenberg) and Jewel ( Hathaway) and their three offspring strike out on a trip to the Amazon rainforest with their owners, Linda ( Leslie Mann) and Tulio ( Rodrigo Santoro).

这次，鹦鹉布鲁（艾森伯格）和珠儿（海瑟薇）带着他们的三个孩子，还有他们的主人琳达（莱斯利曼恩）和图里奥（罗德里格桑托罗）一起来到了亚马逊丛林。

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Government officials in Brazil have confirmed the existence of an uncontacted population in the Amazon rainforest after the tribe of 200 was spotted by satellite.

巴西政府官员证实了亚马逊热带雨林原住民部落的存在，在此之前卫星监测到一个200人的部落。

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These selections showcase tropical flavors from the Amazon rainforest and the Atlantic coastal forest.

这些挑中的啤酒展现了亚马逊热带雨林和大西洋海岸丛林的热带风味。

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In order to transport agricultural products to the world, the Amazon rainforest in Brazil become an important source of growth in land resources.

为了更多地向世界输送农产品，亚马孙热带雨林成为巴西土地资源增长的重要来源。

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As a result, the Amazon rainforest even today is struggling to recover from that loss of fertility.

结果就是就算是今天的亚马逊雨林也正在从营养流失中恢复。

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And the greatest and most endangered species in the Amazon Rainforest is not the jaguar, it's not the harpy eagle, it's the isolated and uncontacted tribes.

在亚马逊热带雨林中，最伟大而最濒危的物种不是美洲豹，也不是美洲角雕，而是与世隔绝的人类部落。

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From there it's on to the Amazon Rainforest, on the border with Peru and Brazil, and a camp sited on a tree-top platform from which you can kayak to see caiman, monkeys and sloth.

亚马逊雨林从那里开始——秘鲁和巴西的边界。在树顶平台上安营扎寨，你可以乘独木舟观赏到凯门鳄，猴子和树懒。

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The problem is of particular concern in Brazil, where most of the Amazon rainforest lies.

这个问题与拥有大部分亚马逊雨林的巴西格外有关。

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Gin spent five months in early 2015 exploring the most remote corners of this area, which sits on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, with half its population of only 250,000 living in its capital, Cayenne ．

2015年初，金花了5个月时间探索这个地区最偏远的角落,它坐落在亚马逊雨林的边缘，那里25万人口中的一半都住在首都卡宴。

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Other likely effects include shrinkage of the Amazon rainforest and Boreal forests, increases in the intensity of extreme weather events, species extinctions and changes in agricultural yields.

其他的一些影响包括亚马孙雨林和寒带森林的锐减，极端天气状况出现密度加剧，物种灭绝以及农业产量下降等。

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Nearly all the growth has come from large, mechanised farms in the south-central region& hundreds of miles away from the Amazon rainforest.

所有的成长几乎都来自中南部地区机械化的大型农场&距离亚马逊河雨林数百英里远。

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And some have been found& for example, attributing the rise in disaster costs to climate change and claims that up to40 per cent of the Amazon rainforest could react drastically to drought.

而且一些错误已经被发现了&例如，把灾难成本归结于气候变化以及声称亚马逊雨林的40%以上可能对干旱做出激烈的反应。

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In recent years, a city known as Kuhikugu was discovered in the Amazon Rainforest that showed evidence of sophisticated fortifications and engineering, leading many to speculate that it may be the source of the Z legend.

近年来，一座名为Kuhikugu的城市在亚马逊雨林中被发现，它有着复杂的防御工事和建筑工程，这些证据让许多人猜想这可能是Z城传说的源头。

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But campaigners are concerned it might destroy untouched parts of the Amazon rainforest, affecting hundreds of indigenous communities.

但社会活动家们担心它将破坏亚马逊雨林的原貌，对数百个土著社区产生影响。

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The new study explains why this is especially an issue for the Amazon rainforest.

这项新的研究解释了为什么这尤其会对亚马逊雨林造成问题。

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Indians living deep inside the Amazon Rainforest have found the survivors of a plane which crashed on Thursday.

居住在亚马逊热带雨林深处的印第安人发现了周四坠落的飞机上的幸存者。

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The over 25 hundred kilometer-long power transmission project connects the Amazon Rainforest to the north and the Rio de Janeiro to the south.

这条总长超过2500千米的输电项目北起亚马孙雨林，南达里约热内卢。

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