At the beginning of the twentieth century, on the Gulf Coast in the US state of Texas, there was a hill where gas leakage was so noticeable that schoolboys would sometimes set the hill on fire.

二十世纪初，在美国德克萨斯州墨西哥湾沿岸，有一座山，那里天然气泄漏非常明显，学生们有时甚至会放火烧山。

Along the Detroit River stands a series of abandoned industrial sites.

底特律河沿岸矗立着一系列废弃工业区。

Salt water crocodiles, for example, inhabit the marshes along coast or the area.

比如，湾鳄就居住在大堡礁沿岸或区域内沼泽地里。

The drops came as major dam building projects were carried out along the Yangtze.

这一下降是由于长江沿岸大型水坝建设工程导。

Refineries and storage facilities line the Mississippi River in the state capital, Baton Rouge.

在州首府巴吞鲁日，沿着密西西比河沿岸排列着炼油厂和仓储设施。

All of the levees along the Missouri River have broken, and the towns of Portage Des Sioux and West Alton, which sit at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, have been completely isolated by water.

密苏里河沿岸所有堤坝都被冲破了，及密苏里河与密西西比河交汇处，波蒂奇德苏和西奥尔顿镇也都完全被水重重包围了。

The two most dangerous parts of a cyclone or hurricane are the storm surge, the wall of water it washes ashore and the flooding its rains bring.

风暴或飓风最危险分是风暴潮, 不断冲刷沿岸地区如高墙般水壁，还有随后突降暴雨形成洪水。

There were no news alerts, no way for photos to go viral, no mechanism for a kid on the Gulf Coast to hear these unlikely heroes tell their stories.

当时没有新闻，也没有照片四处传播，墨西哥湾沿岸一孩子没有渠道听到这些机会渺茫英雄们讲述他们故事。

It linked a stone pit in the Egyptian desert to waterways that carried blocks to monument sites along the Nile.

这条路连接了埃及沙漠中一采石场和几条运送石块至尼罗河沿岸纪念遗址水路。

During heavy rains, rivers along the Amazon rainforest turn a pink shade, and with their pink coloring, male dolphins are harder to detect.

在大雨期间，亚马逊雨林沿岸河流会变成粉红色阴影，雄性海豚更难被发现。

Beneath an island on the Finnish Baltic Sea coast, the country is digging.

他们在芬兰波罗海沿岸一座岛屿下方挖掘。

Which of these cities is located on Egypt's Mediterranean coast?

下哪座城市位于埃及地中海沿岸？

In 1858, London was hit by the " Great Stink" after the banks of the Thames became clogged with raw sewage.

1858，泰晤士河沿岸被未经处理污水堵塞，伦敦遭受了“大恶臭”袭击。

This map shows Lyme disease carrying ticks in the US — the western black legged tick along the Pacific coast, and the black legged tick in the northeast and upper midwest.

这张地图显示了美国携带莱姆病蜱虫——太平洋沿岸西黑腿蜱，及东北和中西内陆黑腿蜱。

Understanding the country's physical geography helps explain why Australians have chosen to live where they do, and why so few of them live along the country's northern coast.

了解澳大利亚自然地貌，就能解释当地人聚居选择，也能说明为何北沿岸人口稀少。

Countries in the Middle East and along the Mediterranean have taken the dish and made it their own by adding different spices or toppings while keeping the roots of the dish the same.

中东和地中海沿岸国家接受了这道菜，并通过添加不同香料和配料，把它当成了自己菜肴，但仍保留了这道菜精髓。

It's also going to reduce the commute between the Mediterranean planes and the Judean hills, which usually takes about an hour to two to less than 30 minutes.

这也将会减少从地中海沿岸到约旦山区之间通勤时间，从1至2小时减少到不到30分钟。

One explanation is that a virus possibly worsened by ocean warming events like El Nino has been ravaging sunflower stars along North America's Pacific coast.

一种解释是，一种可能因厄尔尼诺等造成海洋变暖现象而恶化病毒一直在对北美太平洋沿岸向日葵海星造成严重伤害。

Along the Indian Ocean coast of East Africa Zanzibar, and mainly Tanzania have had a long battle with malaria.

印度洋沿岸东非桑给巴尔，主要是坦桑尼亚，与疟疾进行了长期斗争。

Coastal residents of the southeastern United States are bracing for great impact from Hurricane Dorian.

美国东南沿岸居民正迎来飓风多利安巨大冲击。