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Which Places Are Most Vulnerable to Climate Change?
哪些地方最容易受到氣候變化影響？
Spring comes sooner. The rain falls too hard or not enough. Warmer weather causes animals, plants, microbes and fungi to move in new directions. Such shifts are just some of the changes already happening as a result of increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, otherwise known as climate change.
春天來(lái)的太早。雨下的太多或者太少。比往常更溫暖的天氣導(dǎo)致動(dòng)植物，微生物和真菌向新的方向轉(zhuǎn)移。這些變化是大氣中溫室氣體含量增多也就是氣候變化所導(dǎo)致的結(jié)果。
But which places—Arctic tundra or Amazon rainforest—are most vulnerable to such climate change?
但是那些地方更容易受到氣候變化影響呢？是北極苔原還是亞馬遜熱帶雨林呢？
A research team has attempted a new estimate published in Nature Climate Change. (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.) Based on how intact a given ecosystem is as well as how much climate change it is expected to endure, they suggest that the high latitudes and high altitudes are likely to see the most change.
一個(gè)研究團(tuán)隊(duì)嘗試了一個(gè)系的調(diào)查發(fā)表在了《自然氣候雜志》上。（科學(xué)美國(guó)人是自然出版集團(tuán)的一部分。）根據(jù)一個(gè)給定生態(tài)系統(tǒng)的完整程度以及其預(yù)期氣候變化承受能力，他們認(rèn)為高緯度和高海拔地區(qū)可能最受影響。
But that's not the whole story. All told, the most vulnerable regions included much of southern Asia, western and central Europe, eastern South America and southern Australia thanks to a combination of degraded landscapes and shifting climates.
但是，這并不是故事的全部。總而言之，由于退化的陸地景觀以及氣候的轉(zhuǎn)變，最脆弱的地區(qū)包括了亞洲南部，歐洲西部和中部，南美洲東部以及澳洲南部。
This analysis can now inform conservation efforts: more stable intact areas may just require monitoring. But the most damaged and changing places would need everything from habitat restoration to potential human-assisted movement of species.
這個(gè)分析現(xiàn)在能指明保護(hù)措施了，越穩(wěn)定完整的區(qū)域可能只需要監(jiān)控。但是受損最嚴(yán)重以及不斷變化的地方需要從棲息地恢復(fù)到潛在的人類輔助物種轉(zhuǎn)移的活動(dòng)。
Whatever the case, the human influence on the world has become overwhelming and it's high time to take responsibility for nature in this Anthropocene.
無(wú)論如何，人類對(duì)世界的影響已經(jīng)變得無(wú)處不在，是時(shí)候在這個(gè)人類時(shí)代承擔(dān)責(zé)任了。
—David Biello
