Why Are California’s Trees Dying?
2023年3月13日小于 1 分钟
California’s iconic
mountain forests are in serious trouble, according to a series of recent studies. The latest — an aerial
survey of the state’s most forested regions — shows that a combination
of drought and insect
damage wiped
out a startling 36 million trees between 2021 and 2022. “These last three years have been the hardest, driest three years on record in California,” said Jeffrey Moore, a forester with the U.S. Forest Service and the lead researcher on the survey, which was conducted
from July to October.
tips
iconic:标志性的(icon 图标)
wipe:擦拭,用力打,涂上
wipe out:消灭,扫除
aerial:空中(aer- 空中)
combination:联合,组合
insect:昆虫
conduct:行为,举动;vt. 实施,管理,指导(conductibility:传导性;conductible:可传导的)