He employed a scorched-earth policy, destroying villages and burning crops.

他采取了焦土政策，摧毁村庄并烧掉了庄稼。

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Earth was already in one of its warm interglacial periods when we started burning fossil fuels.

当我们开始使用化石燃料时，地球已经处于温暖的间冰期之一。

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Our main fossil fuels — coal, petroleum and gasoline — are made up of carbon that has been compressed in the Earth for millions of years and we're now burning and rapidly restoring to the atmosphere.

我们的主要矿物燃料包括——煤，石油和汽油——他们的组成成分都包括碳，它已经在我们的地球积压了数百万年，我们现在将它使用和燃烧，让它快速的归还到大气中。

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This could be a serious problem. The shield protected the spacecraft from burning up from the extreme heat of re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.

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The material that is burning up in Earth's atmosphere during the Quadrantids likely comes from a comet that broke into fragments centuries ago, NASA says.

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Earth is burning up.

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"After hundreds of years orbiting the sun, they will enter our atmosphere at 90, 000 mph, burning up 50 miles above Earth's surface, " NASA said.

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