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CLIMATE AND THE KHAN

机译:气候与可汗

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Dense clouds suffocate the sky over Mongolia's Khangai mountain range, and Amy Hessl, by her own admission, is about to cry. She sprawls on the dry, scrubby ground, defeated. As the temperature drops on this early June day and the clouds give way to icy raindrops, all Hessl can mutter is, "I feel sick." Hessl, a geographer from West Virginia University, studies tree rings for what they can tell us about climate and past environments. She's come to Mongolia to investigate one of history's most enduring puzzles: how Genghis Khan set forth from such an inhospitable place to beget the largest contiguous land empire the world has ever known. Her team, working to unearth this ancient mystery, has found clues of another climate-driven transformation - one that's still underway. It's a tale in which herders and nomads are streaming to urban centers while resources are being exploited without long-term environmental planning, and people, individually and as a society, have no choice but to adapt.
机译:浓密的云层窒息了蒙古的汉爱山脉,而艾米·赫斯尔(Amy Hessl)自己也哭了,这是她自己的承认。她躺在干燥的地面上,被打败了。在6月初的气温下降,而乌云密布的雨滴让乌斯尔喃喃地说,“我感到恶心”。西弗吉尼亚大学的地理学家Hessl研究树木的年轮,以了解它们对气候和过去环境的影响。她来蒙古调查历史上最持久的难题之一:成吉思汗如何从如此荒凉的地方出发,以建立世界上已知的最大的连续土地帝国。她的团队致力于发掘这个古老的奥秘,发现了另一种由气候驱动的转变的线索-这项转变仍在进行中。在这个故事中,牧民和游牧民流向城市中心,而资源的开发却没有长期的环境规划,人们无论是个人还是社会,别无选择,只能适应。

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    《Discover》 |2015年第6期|30-39|共10页
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    RUSS JUSKALIAN;

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