文档介绍：1Climate Photo of the Week
Throughout California and the Southwest, new energy sources are being constructed （正在兴建中）and threatened. So besides 50 fence installers, along with （和...一同）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 input 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 energy issues and solutions in the West will be covered in （被覆盖 在）coming reports, including new housing with solar roofs, energy and water saving technology, and other solar innovations like walls of glass that filter sunlightas well as （和...一样）generate photo-voltaic energy. Meantime ocean temperatures in the western Pacific and the Caribbean are extraordinarily high, another reminder that global warming'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. Information, alerts and maps are available from NOAA
2Please see Climate News and Views.
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, presenting a comprehensive look at（呈现出以全面的角度）global warming science, the world wide effects of climate change, its implications, and what action is being taken about it. Braasch documents this change through science reporting and photography from the Arctic to Antarctica, from glaciers to the oceans. Rapid climate change is occurring now an