这个事故已经酿成为一场重大的环境灾难。
The accident is already shaping up as a significant environmental disaster.
据推测,这些环境灾难可能是物种大规模灭绝的成因,包括恐龙的灭绝。
Presumably, those environmental disasters could have been responsible for the mass extinction, including the death of the dinosaurs.
如果要把大笔资金花在清理环境灾难上,那么最好把钱花在那些乏味但紧迫的问题上,比如处理第三世界国家不卫生的水的问题上。
If big sums are to be spent on cleaning up environmental disasters, it is better to spend them on unglamorous but pressing problems such as unsanitary water in Third World countries.
Katrina was not only a tragedy, it was an envrionmental catastrophe as well.
卡特里娜飓风不仅带来了一场悲剧,同时它也是一场环境灾难。
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