Photographers have been working up and down the stricken Indus-river basin to give the rest of the world a more tangible way to understand its devastation.

摄影师往返于印度河盆地，让世界能以一种更明确的方式了解这次洪水带来的灾害。

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Satellite images of the upper Amazon River Basin taken since 1999 have revealed more than 200 geometric earthworks spanning a distance greater than 155 miles (250 kilometers).

1999年卫星拍摄的亚马逊盆地高空鸟瞰图显示出超过200个在土地上划出的几何图形，横跨距离长达155英里(250公里)。

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For more than 200 years, expeditions have set off into the jungles of the Congo river basin in search of the mythical Mobele-Mbembe - the "one who stops the flow of rivers," in a local Bantu dialect.

早在两百年前起，就有探险队深入刚果河流域的森林，寻找着传说中神秘的刚果恐龙——在当地班图语里，刚果恐龙意为“截河断流的怪物”。

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Other coal companies have drifted out West to the Powder River Basin, where the coal lies right at your feet.

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Indigenous groups in the Pastaza River basin near the Ecuador border have been complaining for years about the pollution and the failure of successive governments to address it.

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But the consequence is that as many as 4, 000 people, according to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, could have their homes submerged as waters are funneled into the Atchafalaya River Basin, between that river and the Mississippi.

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