文档介绍：ICIimate Photo of the Week
Throughout Califor nia and the Southwest, new en ergy sources are being constructed （正在兴建中） r nia desert tortoise, Federally listed as threate ned. So besides 50 fence installers, along with （禾口 同）road builders, engineers and
security staff being employed, the BLM and the company have 40 biologists patrolling the site to keep tortoises from（ 使… 免受…）being killed or injured. Eventually the project will put an average 650 to work in construction over the coming few years. The animals -- an estimated 32 of them live on the solar site -- will be relocated to （重新定位） nearby habitat. During the planning and public comment phase of the project, with in put by BLM and NGO endangered species advocates,
BrightSource reduced the size of the plant and its footprint to lessen its impact on （减轻）the land and the tortoises.
Other en ergy issues and solutio ns in the West willbe covered in （被覆盖 在）co ming reports, in clud ing new hous ing with solar roofs, en ergy and water sav ing tech no logy, and other solar inno vatio ns like walls of glass that filter sun light as well as 和 -样）ge nerate photo-voltaic en ergy.
Mean time ocea n temperatures in the western Pacific and the Caribbea n are extraord in arily high, ano ther remin der that global warmi ng's effects are continuing. In the Caribbean, they are even worse than （比 …更糟 糕）those of 2005 which bleached and damaged so much of the coral there, including endangered coral species in Virgin Islands National Park.
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World View of Global Warming （全球变暖的世界观）is an independent documentary project by photojournalist Gary Braasch, now in its 11th year,prese nti ng a comprehe nsive look at 呈现出以全面的角度） global
warming scienee, the world wide effects of climate change, its implications, and what action is being taken about it. Braasch documents this cha nge through scie nee report ing and photography from the Arctic to Antarct