研究表明，几乎五分之一的化石燃料排放物是被非洲大陆、亚马逊河和亚洲的森林吸收的。
Almost one-fifth of our fossil fuel emissions are absorbed by forests across Africa, Amazonia and Asia, the research suggests.
然而，由于各岛屿国家的陆地面积、1人口密度、气候、地理地形条件等有很大差异，它们的森林覆盖程度也有很大差别。
However, due to a considerable variation in land area, 1 population density and climatic, geological and topographical conditions, the extent of forest cover differs greatly among the island states.
在非洲大陆，人们感染埃博拉病例与直接接触雨林中发现死亡的大猩猩、黑猩猩、猴子、森林羚羊和豪猪有关。
On the African continent, Ebola infections of human cases have been linked to direct contact with gorillas, chimpanzees, monkeys, forest antelope and porcupines found dead in the rainforest.
在大地的混沌时期，水陆还没有清楚地分开，体积巨大、奇形怪状的两栖动物，在从淤泥地里生长出来的、没有树身的森林中行走。
When, in the early ages of the Earth, land and water had not yet distinctly separated, huge misshapen amphibious creatures walked the trunk-less forests growing on the oozing silt.
就全球而言，目前森林覆盖约占地球陆地面积的31%。
Globally, forests now cover about 31% of the Earth's land surface.
砍伐森林每年导致约五分之一温室气体排放，高于所有形式的航空和水陆运输排放量的总和。
Deforestation causes around fifth of greenhouse gas emissions every year, more than all the forms of air and surface transport combined.
这些全出现过：夜色笼罩下的光怪陆离、危机四伏的城市；被赶入森林时所经历的恐怖；旅馆里被监听的电话以及在楼下大厅里连续吸烟的杀手的场景。
It is all there: the dangerous glamour of cities at night; the terror of a forced drive into the forest; a world of tapped hotel telephones and chain-smoking killers in the lobby downstairs.
1973年，在关于固定汇率的布雷顿森林体系崩溃以后，德国马克成为了欧洲大陆的基准货币。
After the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates in 1973 the Deutschmark emerged as the benchmark currency in continental Europe.
通过大气层，陆地生态系统的所有部分，森林，草原被有效地联系起来。
Through the atmosphere, all parts of terrestrial ecosystems, forests, grasslands, are linked in a very effective way.
在陆地上，其结果造成了所有的二氧化碳和其他气体形成的大量酸雨，酸雨毁坏了森林中的植被，使其寸草不生。
On land, the consequence of all the carbon dioxide and other gases appears to have been massive acid rain that killed the forests and stripped the landscape bare, " Benton said.
同样的命运很快就会降临到大拉布的条纹肢树蛙身上，它通过使用它的大脚蹼在森林里滑行，用其大脚蹼安全着陆。
The same fate could soon befall the unusually large Rabb's fringe-limbed tree frog, which glides through the forest using its big webbed feet to steer safely to the ground.
报告敦促人们更加关注受损生态系统的恢复，特别是对于应对气候变化至关重要的物种，比如红树林、内陆水域、森林、非洲大草原和牧场草地。
The report urges more focus on restoration of damaged ecosystems, especially those key to tackling climate change such as mangroves, inland waters, forests, savannahs and grasslands.
陆地上还出现夏天的迹象：森林大火。
The land also shows the first sign of summer: large forest fires.
星球上没有沙漠或草原，所有的陆地均被森林均匀覆盖，直到永久的极地寒冰。
Which is nearly right, since there are no deserts or veldts, and all the landmasses are uniformly covered with forest, right up to the permanent polar ice.
到了3亿年前，大片的森林和沼泽覆盖了陆地，最早的爬虫类化石也发现在这一时期的地层中。
By 300 million years ago, large forests and swamps covered the land, and the earliest fossils of reptiles appear during this period as well.
飞机刚一着陆，天花板扩音器中低声传出轻柔的背景音乐，那是一个管弦乐队演奏的甲壳虫乐队的《挪威的森林》。
Once the plane was on the ground soft music began to flow from the ceiling speakers: a sweet orchestral cover version of the Beatles' "Norwegian Wood".
在接下来的四百万年里，被灭绝毁灭了的栖息地——海中的珊瑚礁和陆地上的森林——重新建立起来，尽管繁衍的是全新的物种。
Over the next 4m years, habitats that the extinction had eradicated-reefs in the sea and forests on land-re-established themselves, albeit with entirely novel species.
一项费力测量了整个非洲大陆上近7万棵树木周长的研究显示，热带森林吸收的碳排放比我们认识到的要多。
A laborious study of the girth of 70, 000 trees across Africa has shown that tropical forests are soaking up more carbon dioxide pollution that anybody realised.
一份以24000篇科学论文为基础的报告称，拓荒以及森林的过度砍伐已经成为大洋洲地区陆生动植物群的最大威胁。
Land clearing and overlogging of forests have been highlighted as the greatest threats to land-based flora and fauna in the Oceania region, according to a review of 24, 000 scientific papers.
据联合国粮农组织的主要森林数据，现在世界上大约有40亿公顷(100亿顷)的森林，占地球陆地表面的31%。
According to the main compiler of forest data, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, about 4 billion hectares (10 billion acres) of forest remain, covering 31% of the Earth's land surface.
在陆地面积小于5万平方公里2，的岛屿国家中，2000年的总森林覆盖率约为陆地总面积的38.4%，而世界平均水平是29.6%。
Among the island states with a land area of less than 50 000 km2, the combined forest cover was estimated at 38.4 percent of the total land area in 2000, whereas the world average was 29.6 percent.
随着应对气候变化问题探讨的逐步深入，森林作为陆地生态系统最大碳库而被推上了一个重要位置。
With the escalation of talking about dealing with climate change, forest, as the biggest carbon pool in ecosystem on earth, has taken an important position.
森林生物量估算是进行陆地生态系统碳循环和碳动态分析的基础，业已成为生态学和全球变化研究的重要内容之一。
As a base to analyze the terrestrial carbon cycle and dynamic, forest biomass estimation has been one of important contents of ecology and global change study.
森林是陆地生态系统的主体，地球之肺。
Forests are the main terrestrial ecosystems, the Earth's lungs.
森林覆盖着31%的陆地面积。
氮是陆地生态系统中三大营养元素之一，在森林生态系统中被视作主要的限制生长因子。
Nitrogen is one of the three essential nutrients in the terrestrial ecosystem and is regarded as a main limited factor in the forest ecosystem.
采取爆破捕鱼的方式就得炸毁暗礁以收获大量的鱼。难道你知道某人最后一次决定通过炸毁整片森林来捕获陆地动物是什么时候？
Blast fishing involves blowing up reefs in order to harvest fish. When was the last time someone decided to harvest land animals by blowing up entire forests?
采取爆破捕鱼的方式就得炸毁暗礁以收获大量的鱼。难道你知道某人最后一次决定通过炸毁整片森林来捕获陆地动物是什么时候？
Blast fishing involves blowing up reefs in order to harvest fish. When was the last time someone decided to harvest land animals by blowing up entire forests?
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