In the high Andes of Ecuador the intense power of the equatorial sun beats down through thin air onto a grassland world fringed by glaciers and cloud forest.

在厄瓜多尔的安第斯高地，强烈的阳光透过稀薄的空气炙烤着草原，周围点缀着冰河和云雾缭绕的森林。

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Like migrant labourers everywhere, they do the dirty, dangerous and demeaning jobs that no one else wants: washing dishes, laying bricks and tending oil palms in the muggy equatorial air.

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The pattern is common when La Nina -- the cooler than normal waters in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific -- influences upper air patterns across the southern United States.

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