在苏丹(另一个富有石油的国家),富源本该再次为这个饱受贫穷与干旱的国家带来利益。
In Sudan, another country awash with oil, the bonanza should once again have benefited a country that suffers from both poverty and drought.
利比亚是世界上最干旱的国家之一,只有在占国土面积不到5%的狭长沿海地区,每年能获得超过100毫米的降水。
LIBYA is one of the driest countries in the world, with only the narrow coastal region (less than 5% of the country) getting more than 100mm of rain a year.
美国国家环境总署和世界银行开始拨款并着手调查干旱地区的地下水资源,以开发合适的开采技术。
The United Nations Environment Programme and the World Bank have funded attempts to survey the groundwater resources of arid lands and to develop appropriate extraction techniques.
但是湖泊却还在这里。尽管美国大部分地区都定期遭受干旱之苦,五大湖的蓄水量却足以将整个国家淹没。
But the lakes themselves remain; and while much of America is regularly afflicted by drought, they hold enough water to submerge the entire country.
如果仅是闪电而没有干旱,击中甜蜜大草原(位于奥克弗诺基国家动物保护区腹地)的闪电不过可能会撂倒两三棵树而已。
And had there been lightning and no drought, the bolt that struck Honey Prairie, deep inside the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, might have just knocked down a tree or two.
埃及等一些贫穷干旱而又人口众多的国家,与日丰这样情况特殊的富国一样,已经依赖于粮食进口。
A few poor, dry and teeming countries, such as Egypt, already depend on food imports, along with the odd rich one, like Japan.
霍姆斯说,干旱、食品涨价、高昂的燃料价格以及在许多国家,特别是索马里正在发生的冲突使危机更加严重。
Holmes says drought and rising food and fuel prices have heightened the crisis along with on-going conflicts in many nations, particularly in Somalia.
在利比亚、沙特阿拉伯这样的干旱国家,这些数据接近100%。
In arid countries such as Libya or Saudi Arabia, that figure is close to 100%.
世界银行理事会正在审议向面临干旱和其它灾害威胁的贫困国家提供风险管理工具的倡议。
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors is considering initiatives to provide risk management tools to poor countries faced by drought and other catastrophes.
当然了,富裕国家也受到了影响:长期的干旱已经造成澳大利亚农作物产量暴跌。
Of course, wealthy countries are affected: long-term drought in Australia has caused certain crop yields to plummet.
该机构表示,气候变化让半干旱国家(如苏丹)的粮食更为稀缺。
Climate change, it says, will make food even scarcer in semi-arid countries such as Sudan.
东非国家在赤道上,一直经受着严酷的干旱和炎热的气温。
The east African country is on the equator, and has always experienced severe droughts and scorching temperatures.
棕色:植物基本不生长,在干旱加剧的德克莎斯州、俄克拉荷马州、新墨西哥州以及其他一些国家。
BROWN: Plants grew poorly, due to worsening drought across Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and several other states.
尽管美国大部分地区都定期遭受干旱之苦,五大湖的蓄水量却足以将整个国家淹没。
And while much of America is regularly afflicted by drought, they hold enough water to submerge the entire country.
水荒在干旱地区的威胁日益严重,全球43个国家约7亿人面临水源紧张问题。
Water scarcity had become more of a threat in arid regions, and about 700m people in 43 countries were facing water shortages.
国际灾难数据库em - DAT虽然记录了一万一千多项重大自然灾难,但是该数据并没有上述国家从1900年到2009年发生过致命水灾、干旱、地震或者严重暴风的记录。
EM-DAT, a catalog of more than 11,000 major natural disasters, has no record of fatal floods, droughts, earthquakes, or severe storms in any of these countries from 1900 to 2009.
根据是美国国家气候数据中心的报告,美国在2011年7月所遭受了史无前例的干旱,受灾地区之广,已超过了过去12年以来任何一个月份。
More of the United States was in exceptional drought in July 2011 than in any other month in the past 12 years, according to the National Climatic Data Center.
国家应该怎样为应对更严峻的干旱和风暴做好准备?
And what should countries do to prepare for more intense droughts and storms?
对于一个国家而言,我们每年面临着洪水与干旱带来的灾难。
As a nation, we've had plenty of both floods and droughts this year.
他说,肯尼亚干旱情况加剧,来自索马里的难民人数上升,给这个国家更大的压力。
He says deepening drought and a rise of Somali refugees in Kenya are putting greater pressure on that country.
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.
无论莫斯科当局是否就干预下雪云层做出最后的决定,俄罗斯仍然是为数不多的国家之一,他们对付冰雹和干旱使用的手段远远不止加农炮。
Regardless of the Moscow authorities' final decision on snow cloud seeding, Russia remains one of the few nations where weather control is more than using anti-hail cannons and battling droughts.
更有影响的因素是莫桑比克货币梅蒂卡尔近期出现急剧的贬值,同样也由于干旱而导致国家南部地区的收成不够理想。
It has more to do with a sharp fall in the metical, Mozambique’s currency, coupled with this year’s poor harvest in the country’s south, due to drought.
在干旱的年份里,一些国家必须租用耗费高昂的柴油发电机来补充水电。
Some countries must rent costly diesel generators to boost hydropower in years of drought.
因为这些国家的生活已经受到了全球变暖的影响- - -饥荒和干旱;沿海村庄消失和源于稀缺资源的冲突。
For these are the nations that are already living with the unfolding effects of a warming planet - famine and drought; disappearing coastal villages and the conflict that arises from scarce resources.
格鲁吉亚不是遭受了干旱袭击的非洲国家。
Georgia is not an African country in the grip of a terrible drought.
乌兹别克斯坦位于中亚 ,是一个干旱的双重内陆国家,10%的地区有密集的耕地、水渠和山谷。
Uzbekistan is a dry, doubly landlocked country in Central Asia, of which 10% consists of intensely cultivated, irrigated river valleys.
那些生活在100多个国家中的10亿最贫困的人们正遭受着洪水、干旱和不断蔓延的疾病的沉重打击。
Those poorest, a billion people in 100 countries, are hit hardest by flooding, drought and the spread of disease.
时值2010年夏季,俄罗斯联邦要与许多起自然灾害作斗争:国家南部的干旱,西部和西伯利亚东部的大火。
In the summer of 2010, the Russian Federation had to contend with multiple natural hazards: drought in the southern part of the country, and raging fires in western Russia and eastern Siberia.
时值2010年夏季,俄罗斯联邦要与许多起自然灾害作斗争:国家南部的干旱,西部和西伯利亚东部的大火。
In the summer of 2010, the Russian Federation had to contend with multiple natural hazards: drought in the southern part of the country, and raging fires in western Russia and eastern Siberia.
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