In other words, there would be more (and worse) floods and droughts .

换句话说，会有更多的（同时更严重的）的洪水和干旱。

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That can increase yields in droughts by up to 40%. And the government has also doled out 54m in grants for the development of products that include coagulant factors to treat haemophilia,

同时，政府还发放5400万美元开发包括发凝血因子在内的产品，

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Indear, a joint public-private biotechnology-research centre based in Santa Fe, recently worked out how to transfer a gene for drought resistance from sunflowers to crops such as maize, soyabeans and wheat. That can increase yields in droughts by up to 40%.

一所位于圣达菲的公私合营的生物科技研究所Indear,最近提出了通过转基因技术把向日葵的抗旱性移稙到玉米，大豆和小麦上，这样在旱季可以增产40%。

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It will also mean making food crops more resistant to the droughts and floods that seem likely if climate change is a bad as scientists fear.

这也将意味着倘若气候变化如科学家们担心的那样糟糕，粮食作物要更耐旱和洪涝。

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Severe winters and summer droughts in 2000, 2001, and 2002 resulted in massive livestock die-off and zero or negative GDP growth.

2000年、2001年和2003年三年连续的冬季严寒和夏季干旱使大批牲畜死亡，GDP出现负增长。

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2002-3: The rise in sea surface temperature was lower than other years but Australia suffered some of its worst ever droughts .

2002-2003：海平面温度上升略低于往年，但是，澳大利亚经受了一些最严重的旱灾。

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Average rainfall in the region fell abruptly (by a third or more) in the early 1970s and Darfur repeatedly suffered droughts .

20世纪70年代早期，随着平均降水量骤减（减少幅度超过三分之一），达尔富尔屡遭干旱问题袭扰。

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Nwanze said many people around the world are no longer able to cope with recurring droughts and floods, which he blames on climate change.

Nwanze表示，全世界的许多人已经不再能够应对频繁发生的干旱和洪水。

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Droughts seem to be ever more frequent in northern China, and southern cities such as Guangzhou are also affected.

北方的旱灾更加频繁，诸如广州等南方城市也深受其害。

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The glaciers are melting, storms have increased in ferocity, there are landslides and floods, followed by droughts and deforestation.

冰川在融化，风暴在凶猛增加，山体滑坡和洪水，随之而来的是干旱和森林砍伐。

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Entire Crocodile, Ethiopia. During long droughts , some tribes have to resort to hunting crocodiles at night for food.

产自埃塞俄比亚，经过很长时间的干旱，一些种族必须在夜间狩猎鳄鱼充饥。

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Climate change, with its promise of droughts and floods, also adds uncertainty.

除此之外，气候变化，以及可能随之而来的干旱和洪水灾害，也将增添不稳定性因素。

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Short-term droughts have occurred in the region for all of recorded history, but they may now occur with far greater frequency.

从所有有记录的历史来看，该地区的短期干旱均有发生，但现在发生干旱的频率太大了。

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The fragmented populations that remain will be battered by heatwaves, droughts , storms and other effects of global warming.

存活下来的支离破碎的种群将会受到热浪，旱灾，暴风雨和其他全球变暖效应的打击。

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Since the dam's completion, the region around Poyang Lake has seen nearly annual droughts , turning some areas into dust bowls.

大坝建成以来，鄱阳湖周边地区几乎每年都会有干旱发生，有些地区变成风沙侵蚀区。

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I had dealt with a lot of natural disasters as governor, including floods, droughts , and tornadoes, but I had never seen anything like this.

担任州长期间，我曾处理过不少自然灾害，包括洪水、旱灾和龙卷风，但我从未见过如此惨状。

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But they can still use their influence to encourage a new regional dialogue about the best ways to prevent future droughts .

但是，援助国仍可利用它们的影响力促成新的地区性对话，讨论防范未来干旱的最佳办法。

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But it is the poor who are most vulnerable to the floods, droughts and cyclones that climate change intensifies.

但是穷人却是因气候变化产生的洪灾，干旱，台风等等最大受害者。

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But Uganda's traditional growing seasons are shifting, so he is worried about droughts or flash floods that could destroy his crop.

但是乌干达传统的种植季节飘忽不定，他很担心干旱或者暴洪会毁掉他的这些幼苗。

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Hydroelectric power, at 22 percent, is a distant second and has been hampered by droughts this year.

第二位的水电占22%，远远排在后面，而且今年以来水电一直受干旱的困扰。

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East Asia and the southern US are promised more hurricanes and cyclones, Africa and south Asia droughts and disease.

东亚和美国南部地区可能遭受更多的飓风和低气压，非洲和南亚则将出现干旱和疾病。

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since then, the water flow has dropped, partly because of prolonged droughts , but planners have made no adjustments, Mr. Du said.

杜先生说自90年代起，由于连年干旱，水流量持续下降，而规划并未作出相应的修改。

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Food security is not a new concern for countries that have battled political instability, droughts or wars.

对于那些已经在与政治动荡、干旱或战争相抗争的国家而言，粮食安全并不是一个新问题。

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Floods will become more frequent in wet regions while dry regions will suffer droughts , says Mr Allan.

多雨地区的洪水将会变得更加频繁，而干旱地区将会遭受旱灾。

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And along the east coast, droughts have reduced the Yangtze River to its lowest water levels in fifty years.

而东部沿岸，大旱则使长江降到了50年来的最低水位。

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During the longer droughts that follow, the extra biomass then dries up so that if lightning strikes, forests burn more spectacularly.

而在接下来的长期干旱中，超额的生物质量会干旱，如遇闪电，森林大火则更加严重。

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It also can influence clouds and precipitation, leading to droughts ; which, in turn, leads to desertification and more dust.

反过来它也能影响云和降水，导致干旱，甚至导致沙漠化和多尘。

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Droughts , floods, deadly storms: the news is full of them.

干旱、灌水、致使的风暴：这些灾祸充斥着新闻。

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Droughts spread through the sub-tropics, accompanied by heatwaves and intense wildfires.

干旱将在亚热带蔓延，随之而来的是热浪和严重的山火。

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It brings longer droughts between more intense periods of rain.

干旱期会越来越长，而与其交叉的降水期则更加密集。

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