Perhaps only 5% of coral reefs can now be considered pristine, a quarter have been lost and all are vulnerable to global warming.

现在未遭受人类破坏的珊瑚礁大约只剩5% ，被完全破坏的占到1/4，而面对全球气候变暖，所有的珊瑚礁都是不堪一击的。

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But those beaches will recover because those big globs of oil, when they hit the beaches, we can send a bunch of people out there and scoop them up, dispose of it properly, and those beaches will look pretty pristine a year or two years from now.

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He had joined us briefly as we sat in a conference room as pristine as a research laboratory.

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Vast open-pit mines that spew clouds of dust into the air scar a landscape that locals say was largely pristine only a few years ago.

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