wetlands

The coastguard doesn't know yet how much oil is spilling, or whether it has the potential to harm wetlands or wildlife in the area.

海岸警卫队目前尚不清楚多少油已经泄露，或是否有可能伤害在该地区的湿地野生动物。

That, at least, is the conclusion of a report published by Wetlands International, a lobby group, this week.

至少这是游说集团国际湿地组织本星期一份报告的结论。

Well, you know, we got into this in the beginning as a trade-off, they say, between the wetlands versus the ocean depth.

当然，那些专家说，我们之所以会在海中看到这些景象，是因为我们不得不在湿地和深海之间权衡取舍。

He said: 'The wetlands are home to lots of wading or marsh birds, as well as numerous alligators.

他表示，这片湿地里生活着大量沼泽鸟（或涉水鸟），以及很多短吻鳄。

Now there's new focus on a pair of methane sources that we usually don't think of as natural polluters: wetlands and rice paddies.

现在两个过去不认为是自然污染源的甲烷气体排放源又成为了关注的焦点，即湿地和稻田。

The company faces a tidal wave of litigation and an epidemic of stories about oil-drenched sea birds and devastated wetlands.

该公司可能面对潮水般的诉讼，还有关于浑身沾满油污的海鸟以及被破坏的湿地这类故事的广泛传播。

American alligators are found in freshwater coastal wetlands across the southeastern United States, from Louisiana to the Carolinas.

在美国东南部淡水海岸的滨海湿地，从路易斯安那州到卡罗来那州，可以找到美洲鳄的踪迹。

Constructed wetlands around the house and the inclusion of a green roof further help to increase energy efficiency and manage water runoff.

在住宅四周建造湿地，使用绿化屋顶进一步提高能量效率和组织排水。

As you develop and you have more businesses and more factories and more homes, you take away land that used to be drainage land, wetlands.

随着不断开发，建设更多的企业、工厂和住房，用于排水的土地和湿地被占用。

Walking through the wetlands used to be like slogging through a squishy field of wet hay.

行走在溼地上就像是对溼地上湿软的泥土重击一样。

Constructed wetlands, as a new kind of wastewater treatment technology, are widely studied and used in Nitrogen and Phosphorus removal.

人工湿地是一项新型的废水处理技术，近年来在脱除富营养化水体氮磷中获得广泛研究和应用。

And a local NGO is attempting to save the drought-affected biodiversity of Australian wetlands by using a network of irrigation channels.

当地慈善团体要藉由使用灌溉引水方式，拯救澳洲受乾旱影响的生物多样性。

It is a testament to the adaptability of life that such a galaxy of species has coalesced within the wetlands in such a short time.

在短短的时间内，这湿地里就聚集了这麽多的物种，正是生命对环境适应性的有力证明。

This new amenity takes the form of a series of lakes, wetlands and waterways which lend form to the new districts in the master plan.

这种新的市容采取的形式是一系列湖泊，湿地和水域提供贷款的形式向新的地区的总计划。

Flood is one of the natural phenomena of water flows and acting as a natural disturbance of rivers to their floodplain wetlands.

洪水是水流运动的一种自然现象，是河流对河滨洪泛湿地系统的一种正常的干扰。

For a few months it is wetlands and is protected as a wildlife reserve.

另几个月里它变成湿地，并被作为野生动物保护区保护起来。

No less than a presidential order has stopped the evictions of those who've encroached on forest reserves and wetlands.

前不久，一纸总统令停止了驱逐那些侵占森林保护区和湿地的人的行动。

However, providing food and shelter for endangered birds is not the only season for us to protect wetlands.

然而，为濒临绝迹的鸟类提供食物和保护区并非我们保护湿地的唯一理由。

One of the spill's greatest environmental threats is to Louisiana's wetlands, scientists believe.

科学家认为对路易斯安娜州湿地的污染是石油泄漏对环境造成的最大危害之一。

Saltwater wetlands, temporary marshes, salt lakes, and salt crust comprise the white areas (called "Salars" )pictured near the top.

咸水湿地、临时沼泽、盐湖和盐壳组成了图中上部的白色区域。（被称为“Salars”）。