Before exploring new drilling sites, Kenya is first expanding several geothermal plants it operates in the Rift Valley.
在探查新的钻探地点之前，肯尼亚首先在大裂谷建设数家地热电站。
It follows that melon plants have a lower-than-usual rate of photosynthesis when their roots are in rain-soaked soil.
因此，当瓜类植物的根在雨水浸湿的土壤中时，它们的光合作用率低于通常水平。
It goes without saying, the opposite is true as well, plants depend on humming birds too.
当然，反过来说，植物也依赖蜂鸟。
Ingham says that when she put it in soil with wheat plants, all of the plants died within a week.
英格汉姆说，当她把它和小麦一起放在土壤中时，所有的植物都在一周内死亡。
If we are ever going to protect the atmosphere, it is crucial that those new plants be environmentally sound.
如果我们要保护大气层，这些新工厂必须对环境无害，这一点至关重要。
A warming climate could lead to a more fragrant world, but it might disturb an intricate communication system used by plants.
气候变暖可能会导致一个更芳香的世界，但它可能会扰乱植物使用的复杂的通讯系统。
Once it's in the soil, plants absorb it through their roots.
一旦它进入土壤，植物会通过根部将它吸收。
People use fertilizer for their crops and plants and a lot of it eventually makes its way from land into the seas.
人们用化肥来种植庄稼和植物，很多化肥最终会从陆地流入海洋。
Drip, or "micro" irrigation, as the name suggests, is stingier with the water, delivering it to the roots of plants drop by drop.
滴灌，或者“微”灌溉，顾名思义，是更吝啬于水，把水一滴一滴地滴到植物的根部。
Simply because they are genetically engineered does not make it any more likely for plants to become an invasive according to a decade-long study published in the journal Nature.
发表在《自然》杂志上的一项长达10年的研究表明：仅仅经过基因改造，并不会使植物更有可能成为入侵物种。
The reason for this increased cloud cover, it turns out, is the exceptionally large amount of microscopic marine plants.
事实证明，云量增加是大量的微型海洋植物导致的。
Without it stopping to feed and spreading pollen from flower to flower, these plants would cease to exist.
如果它不停下来进食，不把花粉从一朵花传到另一朵花，这些植物就会不复存在。
The movement transformed it into a region hospitable to traditional food cultures based on native plants and breeds of animals.
该运动将它转变为一个适合以本地动植物品种为基础的传统饮食文化发展的地区。
It has to be recaptured by watering the plants and, perhaps, by looking again at each one as though it were a person.
必须给植物浇水才能再次捕捉它，可能还要像看一个人一样看看每种植物。
It captures the energy which plants produce during photosynthesis—a process of converting sunlight into energy.
它获取植物在光合作用过程中产生的能量，光合作用是一个将太阳光转化为植物自身能量的过程。
It might be possible to extend the technique to other crop plants.
把该技术扩延到其它农作物上也许是可能的。
This year, as it happens, South Korean scientists proved that plants really do respond to sound.
今年，韩国科学家恰好证明了植物确实会对声音做出反应。
It has allowed the relocation of manufacturing plants and other industries from urban areas to rural.
它让制造业厂房和其他产业从城市地区迁移到农村。
To test the nose, the team presented it with healthy leaves from cucumber, pepper and tomato plants.
为了测试这个鼻子，研究团队给它闻了从黄瓜、辣椒和西红柿植株上采集到的健康叶子。
它给植物能量。
Plants may use it to steal food from each other, or spread chemicals to attack other plants.
植物可能利用它窃取彼此的食物，或传播化学物质来攻击其他植物。
It encouraged the plants to grow faster.
它促使植物生长得更快。
It helped the plants to grow in the right direction.
它有助于植物朝向正确方向生长。
We can collect rainwater when it rains heavily, and use it to water plants.
我们可以在下大雨时收集雨水，用来浇灌植物。
They kill it because they believe it is harmful to plants or people.
他们将其杀死，因为他们认为它对植物或人类有害。
It links the roots of different plants to each other.
它将不同植物的根连接起来。
Besides the darkness, the plants can't stand the cold (it can drop to -170℃ on the moon at night).
除去无光因素，这些植物还不耐冻（月球夜间温度可降至零下170摄氏度）。
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