You'd think rain would be good for California in the middle of its historic drought, but so much rain in so little time on such dry ground can bring serious flooding.

你可能认为降雨对加利福尼亚中部地区的干旱而言无疑是天降甘露，但是短时间内干旱地区如此多的降雨很容易造成严重洪水。

The mixture of swamp dwellers and dry land types also seems to indicate that the deposit is a mixture from different places.

沼泽栖息生物和旱地类型的混，似乎也表明该矿床是来自不同地方的混。

In dry areas the wind is the principal agent of erosion.

在干旱地区，风是造成侵蚀的主要因素。

Patoka has always been an arid region with little rainfall and no glacial water.

帕塔卡一直是一个干旱地区，很少降雨，没有冰川水的存在。

The company simply sprays what they call liquid NanoClay onto dry land.

该公司只需在旱地上喷洒他们所的液态纳米粘土。

Snakes slithering in the trees and waterfalls emerging in historic and dry landscapes.

在树上爬行，瀑布出现在长期以来的干旱地区。

Since it lives in parts of Africa which are usually dry with a great deal of dust, the lashes are an important source of protection.

由于长颈鹿产于非洲干旱地区，当地灰尘很大，睫毛就成了重要的保护措施。

Turtles come out of the wetlands onto dry land to lay their eggs.

海龟从湿地出来，来到旱地产卵。

This two-foot-long lizard lives in the more arid parts of Australia.

这种两英尺长的蜥蜴生活在澳大利亚的干旱地区。

Mr. Ban said the UN must work harder to reduce poverty and protect dry lands.

称联国必须加大扶贫力度，改善干旱地区问题。

Cattle rustling and clashes over access to pasture are common in the country's arid areas.

在该国的干旱地区，偷窃牲畜和为争夺牧场而发生的冲突很常见。

The Sahel of the Sahara Desert is another arid area that experiences violent extremism.

撒哈拉沙漠的萨赫勒是另一个经历暴力极端主义的干旱地区。

Hot, arid regions aren't the kind of place people usually farm.

人们通常不会在炎热干旱地区种植作物。

Three massive wildfires are tearing their way through the dry landscape of Northern California.

三场大火在加州北部的干旱地区肆虐。

Wildfires are tearing through some hot, drought-stricken areas of the West.

大火正在向西方干旱地区蔓延。

These techniques are uniquely cold-beating adaptations — well, they were, until descendants of leaf-dropping trees made it back to the dry tropics, where their strategy helps them deal with the extended seasonal droughts that occur in monsoonal climates.

这些技术是独特的冷拍适应技术，直到落叶树的后代将其带回热带干旱地区为止，他们的策略才可以帮助他们应对季风气候中出现的季节性干旱。

As the pressure to provide these resources for the world's rapidly expanding population increases, coupled with the growing threats of global climate change, drylands across the world are experiencing more soil erosion than ever.

随着为世界迅速增长的人口提供这些资源的压力增加，加上全球气候变化的威胁日益加大，世界各地的旱地正在经历比以往任何时候都更严重的土壤侵蚀。

Exceptional rain in a drought-struck region of northern Italy swelled rivers over their banks, killing at least eight people, prompting officials to warn that Italy needs a national plan to combat climate change-induced flooding.

意大利北部干旱地区的异常降雨导致河水泛滥，造成至少8人死亡，促使官员们警告称，意大利需要制定一项全国性计划来应对气候变化引发的洪水。

CHINCHAR: Using a device called an imaging spectrometer, EMIT scans the Earth's arid regions to detect different colored soils, creating a mineral map.

借助一种叫做成像光谱仪的设备，EMIT可以扫描地球的干旱地区，以探测不同颜色的土壤，创建一个矿物地图。

A third of Earth's dry land (deserts and ice caps included) is devoted either to growing domesticated plants for human consumption or to the nutrition of domestic animals.

地球上三分之一的旱地(包括沙漠和冰盖)要么用于种植供人类食用的驯化植物，要么用于给家畜提供营养。