澳大利亚可怕的野火摧毁了五分之一的森林
澳大利亚可怕的野火摧毁了五分之一的森林
Australia's wildfires have destroyed more than a fifth of the country's forests, making the blazes "globally unprecedented" following a years-long drought linked to climate change, researchers said Monday.
澳大利亚研究人员于本周一称，该国超过五分之一的森林遭到森林大火的破坏，在经历了与气候变化有关的长达数年的干旱之后，这场大火在全球范围内是史无前例的。
Climate scientists are currently examining data from the disaster, which destroyed swathes of southeastern Australia, to determine to what extent they can be attributed to rising temperatures.
气候科学家目前正在研究这场灾难的数据，这场灾难摧毁了澳大利亚东南部的大片地区，以确定它们在多大程度上可以归因于气温上升。
In a special edition of the journal Nature Climate Change, Australian researchers examined several other aspects of the blazes, including investigations into their extent and possible causes.
在《自然-气候变化》杂志的特刊中，澳大利亚研究人员研究了大火的其他几个方面，包括对其范围和可能原因的调查。
One study showed that between September 2019 and January 2020 around 5.8 million hectares of broadleaf forest were burned in New South Wales and Victoria.
一项研究显示，在2019年9月至2020年1月期间，新南威尔士州和维多利亚州大约有580万公顷的阔叶林被烧毁。
This accounts for roughly 21 percent of the nation's forested area, making this fire season proportionately the most devastating on record.
这大约占全国森林面积的21%，使得这个火灾季成了有记录以来破坏性最大的季节。
"Halfway through Spring 2019 we realised that a very large part of the eastern Australian forest could be burned in this single season," Matthias Boer, from the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney University, Penrith, told AFP.
“2019年春季过半，我们意识到澳大利亚东部森林的很大一部分可能在这个季节被烧毁，”西悉尼大学(Western Sydney University，Penrith)霍克斯伯里环境研究所(Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment)的马蒂亚斯•波尔(Matthias Boer)告诉法新社。
"The shock came from realising that this season was off the charts globally in terms of the percentage of the continental section of a forest biome that burned."
“令人震惊的是，人们意识到，就一个森林生态群落的大陆部分被烧毁的比例而言，这个季节超出了全球的记录。”
Boer said his study almost certainly underestimates the extent of forest loss as the island state of Tasmania was not covered in the data.
波尔说，他的研究几乎肯定低估了森林损失的程度，因为塔斯马尼亚岛没有包含在数据中。
Australia's annual average forest loss to wild fires is typically well below 2 percent.
澳大利亚每年因野火造成的森林平均损失通常远低于2%。
