非洲干旱地区进程。
麦爵尔说,这些砂坝最大限度能为非洲干旱地区的300万人提供清洁水源,尤其有益于妇女。
Maddrell said the sand DAMS had the potential to give up to 3 million people access to clean water in the drylands of Africa, and would be of particular benefit to women.
任何地区——无论是非洲干旱的撒赫勒(Sahel)地区,还是澳大利亚的粮食出口区,还是美国日趋干旱的西南地区——都不能回避这一问题。
No place is immune, neither the arid Sahel of Africa nor the grain-exporting regions of Australia nor the drought-prone Southwest of the U.S..
这里是非洲最干旱、灰尘最多的地方之一。
为了粮食和稻草,珍珠谷子是在非洲和亚洲最炎热、最干旱地区种植的谷物。
Pearl millet is a cereal grown for foodgrain and straw in the hottest, driest areas of Africa and Asia.
令人惊讶的是,干旱地区拥有着世界上最大的一些河流系统,如澳大利亚的墨累-达令河、北美的里奥格兰德河、亚洲的印度河和非洲的尼罗河。
Arid lands, surprisingly, contain some of the world's largest river systems, such as the Murray-Darling in Australia, the Rio Grande in North America, the Indus in Asia, and the Nile in Africa.
这种能力还在灾后卫生紧急状况中,如2010年巴基斯坦洪水以及2011年非洲之角的干旱中得到施展。
This capacity has also been deployed in health emergencies such as the 2010 floods in Pakistan and the 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa.
非洲之角目前正面临着50多年来最严重的干旱。儿童营养不良的比例已是15%这一紧急情况阈值的两倍或三倍,并估计还会攀升。
The Horn of Africa is facing its worst drought in over 50 years; child malnutrition rates are more than double or triple the 15% emergency threshold and are expected to rise.
由于受南部非洲干燥信风冲击,阿森松只是一个干旱的小岛。
Ascension was an arid island, buffeted by dry trade winds from southern Africa.
类似地,脑膜炎在非洲的爆发与干旱气候有关,而二者很可能同步增加。
Similarly, meningitis outbreaks in Africa are strongly correlated with drought. Both are likely to increase.
他把这种现象归咎于极端贫困、粮食价格和能源价格的急遽飙升、日益恶化的气候变化的影响造成干旱在非洲蔓延,以及国家内部的冲突。
He attributes this to extreme poverty, aggravated by soaring food and energy prices, the growing impact of climate change, which is causing spreading drought in Africa, and civil conflict.
非洲之角的干旱和饥荒显示了生物燃料生产的一个后果:世界粮食危机。
Drought and famine in the Horn of Africa have exposed further a negative consequence of biofuel production: the global food crisis.
同时,干旱也是造成非洲脑膜炎爆发的重要原因。
Similarly, meningitis outbreaks in Africa are strongly correlated with drought.
厄尔尼诺现象与非洲、澳大利亚和亚洲的干旱以及美国和南美大部分地区雨天多于常规天气的状况也有密切的关联。
El nino is also strongly linked to droughts in Africa, Australia and Asia, and wetter-than-normal weather in much of the us and South America.
在亚洲和非洲贫脊干旱的沙漠中就有砂猫的踪迹,这种猫长有特殊的爪子,爪子上覆有皮毛可以让其免于受到灼热砂子的伤害。
The sand cat is found in the arid deserts of Asia and Africa and has particularly furry feet to protect them from the scorching sands.
现在非洲之角的干旱可能比当时更糟。
The drought in the Horn of Africa is probably worse now than it was then.
“玉米作为非洲一半以上人口的主要粮食作物,其产量受到干旱的严重影响,”他说。
"Maize happens to be one crop in Africa that is consumed by more than half of the population, and it is badly affected by drought," he said.
两个新品种的玉米将被引进撒哈拉以南非洲地区,预计会缓解干旱带来的不利影响。
But two new varieties of corn, also known as maize, are coming to sub-Saharan Africa.
然而,在遭遇了60年来最可怕的干旱之后,非洲之角有超过一千万的人需要紧急食物援助。
Yet, after the worst drought in 60 years, more than 10m people in the Horn of Africa need emergency food aid.
1991- 1992:非洲南部经历最严重的一次干旱,影响到近亿人口。
1991-1992: Southern Africa experienced one of its worst droughts, affecting close to 100 million people.
干旱的萨赫勒地区毗连着撒哈拉大沙漠,该沙漠通过毛里塔尼亚、塞内加尔、马里、尼日尔、布基纳法索、尼日利亚、乍得、苏丹、阿尔及利亚、埃塞俄比亚和厄立特里亚延伸横穿非洲的北部。
The arid Sahel region borders the Sahara Desert, stretching across northern Africa through Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Algeria, Ethiopia and Eritrea.
这次非洲之角遭遇的干旱据说是数十年来最严重的,1200多万人面临饥荒。
The drought ravaging the Horn of Africa is said to be the worst in decades, with more than 12 million people facing hunger and starvation.
这次非洲之角遭遇的干旱据说是数十年来最严重的,1200多万人面临饥荒。
The drought ravaging the Horn of Africa is said to be the worst in decades, with more than 12 million people facing hunger and starvation.
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