Considering that Sundarbans National Park is situated in thetropics, Septemberto March is the ideal time to come here. April, May and June are too hot while July andAugust often bring heavy season winds that limit travel and don't make for avery pleasant sightseeing experience. You can really enjoy doing lots ofcharming things in the Sundarbans during September to March.
Take a river tour
Most tourists who explore the Sundarbans arrive in KhulnaCity first. Fromthere, youcan join a boat tour that travels south along the Ganges River through miles ofpreserved forest all the way to Kotka, where there is a beautiful beach alongthe Bay of Bengal.
Visit a bird habitat
This bird habitat is a nesting place for dozens of tropicalbirds found in the Sundarbans. The best way to observe these birds isclimbing up the Sajnekhali Watchtower. If you're lucky, you'll also catch the famed BengalTiger making its rounds through the swampy jungle.
Visit the Mangrove(红树林)Interpretation Centre
If you wish to spend some time indoors out of the sweatyheat, goto the Mangrove Interpretation Centre. This place is very educational withmany posters, mapsand exhibits showing the wildlife and varieties of mangrove plants found withinthe park. You'llalso get to see crocodiles in a small pool.
Take a tour of local villages
Experience village life that has largely remained unchangedfor centuries. Inthis vast tropical region, there are villages made up of variousethnic groups who rely on fishing, farming and working in the localthrough growing tourist industry for their livelihoods. The Sundarbans is a UNESCO worldheritage site where you can visit villages and talk to locals,who will gladly sharetheir culture with you.
Ms Yuting Zhou is an early-career environmental advisor working on industrial wastewater pollution management, In her work, she's learning about an important type of environmental pollution, and finding ways to help companies manage water resources better.
When we asked Yuting how old she was when she got interested in environmental problems, we were surprised by her response. "I must have been about six years old. I used to watch an American TV series about an environmentalist Superhero named Captain Planet. "
There is one serious pollution event somewhere in the world. The concern about environmental issues deeply influenced Yuting. But how does one prepare to be a "Superwoman"? For Yuting, it came down to a reflection on what she might be good at — in her case, the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) subjects-and making considered choices in her education.
She began to study environmental engineering, and found a passion for the subject. "During my graduate studies. " I researched different kinds of health effects.
While she developed valuable skills that would help her in her career, she also learnt more about herself and her role in the world. "I learnt that science requires a scientific proof through repeated and sometimes long processes. Although I completed and published my research in a top academic journal, I realized that I'm not fit for laboratory work. I needed more interaction with people, and to solve real-life problems. "
Within three days of graduating, Yuting was on a plane heading to Kenya. She was excited about working for the United Nations because there were people from various industries and backgrounds gathering to improve the environment and create a more sustainable (可持续的) future — a lot like the setting of Caprain Planetwhich brought light to her in the first place.
Several years ago, Jason Box, a scientist from Ohio, flew 31 giant rolls of white plastic to a glacier (冰川) in Greenland. He and his team spread them across 10,000 feet of ice, and then left. His idea was that the white blanket would reflect back the rays of the sun, keeping the ice cool below. When he came back to check the results, he found it worked. Exposed ice had melted faster than covered ice. Hehad not only saved two feet of glacier in a short time. No coal plants (煤炭工厂) were shut down, no jobs were lost, and nobody was taxed or fired. Just the sort of fix we're looking for.
"Thank you, but no thank you. " says Ralph King, a climate scientist. Hetold Grey Childs, author and commentator, that people think technology can save the planet, "but there are other things we need to deal with, like consumption (消费). They burned $50,000 just for the helicopter to bring the plastic to the glacier. "This experiment gives people false hope that climate change can be fixed (解决，处理) without changing human behavior. . It can't. Technology won't give us a free ride (搭便车).
Individuals respond to climate change differently. Climatologist Kelly Smith is hardly alone in her prediction that someday soon we won't be climate victims; we will be climate choosers. More scientists agree with her that if the human race survives, the engineers will get smarter, the tools will get better, and one day we will control the climate. But what then? "Just the mention of us controlling the climate sent a small shiver (颤抖) down my back", Grey Childs writes, "Something sounds wrong about it. "
Me? I like it better when the earth takes care of itself. I guess one day we will have to run theplace, but for the moment, sitting at my desk. looking out at the trees bending wildly and the wind howling. I'm happy not to be in charge.
Have you been exercising and eating clean, but when you step on the scale, it says you've gained a few pounds? "That's normal, and it doesn't mean that your workouts are not effective,"says Jeffrey A. Dolgan, an exercise physiologist in Miami Beach, Florida.
"A person's scale mass is a combination of muscle, fat, bone, blood, and even the air that we carry in our lungs," he says. "Immediately after a workout routine, the percentage of mass in each body part can shift as much as 15 percent. " So if you're gaining weight while working out and eating healthy, it's probably not the type of weight gain that you think it is.
The scale can't tell you how much of your body weight is muscle or fat, which means if your goal is to improve your fitness level, the scale is not the best tool for measuring improvements. When you start to change your body composition with your workouts — by building more muscle mass and decreasing your body fat — your scale weight may increase, while your body fat percentage may decrease. These changes happen over weeks and months (not hours or days) so the scale is useless when tracking them.
You may argue that you weigh a few pounds less after a high intensity (强度) training class. Don't get too excited — it's just water loss due to sweat. Water makes up approximately 65 to 90 percent of a person's weight, and variation in water content of the human body can move the scale by ten pounds or more from day to day.
So ignore the scale and pay more attention to objective measurement tools like body Lhs composition. Keep in mind that if you're exercising but gaining weight, you may actually look slimmer.
Wherever we go, we are surrounded by history. Across the globe, cultural heritage (遗产) is passed down through the generations. Yet, we fight a never-ending and very expensive war to preserve it for the future. And today, it is under attack as never before. Technology is often seen as something that destroys the past. .
Creating copies via 2D images is extremely laborious and time-consuming. AI technologies are being used to do all the required sourcing, allowing lots of images to be cross-referenced and stored in hours. . AI will also make the restoration and preservation of existing cultural heritage far easier and is vastly superior to previous methods.
Airborne technology (机载技术) is being increasingly used in the fight to preserve our cultural heritage.
LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) has already been used to reveal over 60, 000 Mayan structures that were lying undiscovered in the jungles of Guatemala, without needing a single boot on the ground. Drones (无人机) are also being used to document and monitor huge areas and remove the need for all that costly manpower.
Human interaction with the most important sites and architecture is doing a great deal of harm. Virtual Reality (VR) technology will play a leading role in preserving our cultural heritage in the coming years. , VR technology will gradually become the way that people experience them. We'll all eventually be able to walk through places, look at (and touch!) artifacts and works of art without ever seeing them with our own eyes.
. Efforts in research, data sharing and project work will need to be pooled internationally. Using the technical expertise of specialist organizations will become ever more important to the sustainable promoting and preserving of the cultural heritage of countries all across the world.
A. It is being used to save and find it
B. Technology has shaped conflict in several ways
C. But it is now the most essential weapon in the battle
D. Our cultural heritage will be protected via technology
E. This will enable even better and more accurate copies to be created
F. As more cultural heritage sites and objects are digitally mapped and recorded
G. When it measures distances by hitting a target and analyzing the reflected light
I fell in love with Yosemite National Park the first time I saw it, when I was 13. My parents took us there for camping. On the way out, I asked them to wait while I ran up to E1 Capitan, a huge rock of 3,300 feet straight up. I touched that giant rock and knew 1 I wanted to climb it. That has been my life's passion ever since — 2 the rocks and mountains of Yosemite. I've long made Yosemite my 3 .
About 15 years ago I started seeing a lot of 4 , like toilet paper, beer cans, and empty boxes, around the area. It's 5 me why visitors started respecting the place 6 and treated such a beautiful home-like place this way.
I tried 7 trash (垃圾) myself, but the job was too big. I would spend an hour or two on the job, only to find the area trashed all over again weeks later. Finally, I got so 8 it that I decided something had to change.
As a rock-climbing guide, I knew 9 about organizing any big event. But in 2004, together with some climbers, I set a date for a cleanup. On that day, more than 300 people showed up. Over three days we collected about 6,000 pounds of trash. It was amazing how much we were able to 10 . I couldn't believe the 11 we made — the park looked clean!
Each year volunteers come for the cleanup from everywhere. In 2007 alone, 2,945 people picked up 42,330 pounds of trash and 12 132 miles of roadway.
I often hear people 13 about their surroundings. If you are one of them, I would say the only way to change things is by doing rather than complaining. We need to teach by 14 . You can't blame others 15 you start with yourself.
On a weekend in early October, Hu Wenjue and a group of children gathered in a wetland park. Hu pointed at a wild bird and spoke in a low voice while the children were listening (careful).
Hu is a pioneer in nature education in Hefei, Anhui Province. He (found) an organization five years ago to offer several nature- based (program) for children under 12years old. Through various outdoor activities, such as (identify) plants and exploring forests, nature education aims (teach) participants, mostly urban residents, how to appreciate, respect and live in harmony nature.
"Respecting the laws of nature and coexisting with nature harmoniously, we couldchange our lifestyle for the better and it is a virtuous cycle (良性循环), " Hu said. He hopes to see more people protect naturepromote green development and ecological civilization in China.
In recent years, great development (see) in nature education in China, is nourished (滋养) by the country's rich natural resources such as nature reserves, forest parks, wetland parks and geological parks.
"Nature is generous to us if (give) more effective protection, and don't forget that we all belong to nature," Hu said.
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For my fifth-grade science fair project, I got six chicken eggs in an incubator(孵化器).
"But I don't know anything about hatching an egg. "
Mrs. Brubeck smiled. "You don't have to be an immediate expert at everything, Juli. The idea here is to learn something new. "
"But what if they die?"
"Then they die. Document your work scientifically and you'll still get an A. " She pulled The Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickensfrom her bookshelf and said, "Read the book and set yourself up tonight. "
That night I came home, more worried than ever. I'd read the book. I had to turn the eggs three times a day and regulate the temperature and humidity(湿度). But aside from that, what was there to do?
My father came with a cardboard tube and a flashlight. He taped the two together so that the light beam was forced straight out the tube. "I will show you how to candle the eggs," he said, then switched off the light and held an egg up to the cardboard tube. "The light lets you see through the shell so you can watch the embryo(胚胎) develop. Look, see the dark spot here?"
"Is that an embryo?"
"That's it!"
Suddenly it felt real. The eggs were alive! Surely they had to live!
For the next three weeks, I was completely consumed with the growing of chicks. I labeled the eggs A, B, C, D, E and F, but before long they had names, too: Abby, Bonnie, Clyde, Dexter, Eunice and Florence. Every day I weighed them, candled them, turned them. I drew diagrams of various stages of an embryo's development. I documented the daily changes and weight loss of each egg. On the outside the eggs were boring, but I knew what was happening inside!
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Then one morning I was candling Bonnie when I noticed a gentle peck(啄).
The day came when I was supposed to hand in my science fair project.
