南极洲

"These areas are most susceptible to climate warming in the coming century in Antarctica, because they are the closest to the melt threshold," says climatologist Andrew Monaghan of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., who was not involved in this study but reviewed the research.

"在下个世纪，南极沿海地区是南极洲最容易受到气候变暖影响的地区，因为这些地区最接近融化的极限，"科罗拉多州博尔德市美国国家大气研究中心的气候学家安德鲁·莫纳汉说。莫纳汉没有参与这项研究，但是对该研究作了评论。

Cold deserts are covered with ice , but it seldom snows there. Antarctica is the world's largest cold desert.

冷沙漠上面覆盖著冰，但那里也很少下雪，南极洲是世界上最大的冷沙漠。

Darkness in Antarctica's Weddell Sea gives this comb jelly a chance to show off its candy-colored bioluminescent cells.

黑暗在南极洲的Weddell海给予这只梳篦果冻一次机会去显示它的糖果――色彩生物发光的细胞。

Photo Gallery: Translucent Creatures Darkness in Antarctica's Weddell Sea gives this comb jelly a chance to show off its candy-colored bioluminescent cells.

意译：半透明生物图片集。黑暗在南极洲的Weddell海给予这只梳篦果冻一次机会去显示它的糖果――色彩生物发光的细胞。

A copepod, a type of zooplankton, drifts in the Weddell Sea near Antarctica.

桡脚类的动物，一种浮游生物，漂浮在南极洲附近的威德尔海洋。

Photo Gallery: Translucent Creatures A copepod, a type of zooplankton, drifts in the Weddell Sea near Antarctica.

意译：半透明生物图片集。一种桡脚类动物，是典型的浮游生物，漂游在Weddell海靠近南极洲。

Today, the crabeater seal population in the Antarctic is the largest in the world-possibly more than 15 million seals-making it the most numerous large mammal on the planet after humans.

如今在南极洲，食虾海豹的数量是目前世界上最多的——可能超过了150万只。这让它成为了地球上继人类之后数量排名第二的哺乳动物。

Even environmentalism has its iconic images, like Cleveland's heavily polluted Cuyahoga River catching fire in the 1960s, smog wreathing Los Angeles's skyline during the next decade and even the stark hole in the ozone over Antarctica.

像克利夫兰的被严重污染的凯霍加河在20世纪60年代起火后，具有传染性的烟雾在以后的十年里缠绕在洛杉矶的上空，甚至弥漫过了南极洲。

In the past few decades, average Arctic temperatures have warmed roughly 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius); average temperatures in Antarctica have warmed slightly less than 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius).

在过去的几十年里，北极地区的平均气温上升了大约3.6华氏度（2摄氏度）；南极洲的平均气温上升了不到1.8华氏度（1摄氏度）。

It's all downy softness and noise in a crowded cr che of emperor penguins in Antarctica.

在南极洲的冰原上，一群呀呀学语的企鹅仔的声音虽显嘈杂却十分柔和。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。