加州乾旱意外解開飛機失事之謎/ California’s drought may solve plane crash mystery
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歡迎閱讀Tina挑選每日一篇的國際新聞後分享心得一起交流 😊 請從連結閱讀，本文不擷取新聞內容以避免侵權，謝謝。今日選讀新聞，最後有一小片段的加州現況影片，雖然無字幕但鼓勵親估們也可以花些時間觀看來了解國外也因氣候變化導致生態及多方面的衝擊。
今日選讀的文章為：https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57491950
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Good evening!
Welcome to read Tina’s daily selection of international news and don’t shy to share your thought with me. 😊 Please read from the link, I won’t extract news content to avoid infringement.
The news I selected today, in the end there is a short video about the current state of California weather. Although there is no subtitles in the video, I still encourage you to spend some time watching it to understand the various impacts caused by climate change abroad.
Today’s news: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57491950
參考字彙 Vocabulary
severe [adj.] 嚴重的、嚴峻的；劇烈的；苛刻的
intact [adj.] 完整的、原封不動的、未受損傷的
retrieve [v.] 找回、恢復、重新得到
sonar [n.] 聲納、聲波定位器
propeller [n.] 螺旋槳、推進器
sheriff [n.] 州長、治安官
文章大意＆心得
因為近年來氣候變化，導致美國多州乾旱進而影響各層面危機。新聞中提到的加州乾旱嚴重程度已低於正常水量的1/2以上，而此意外讓當地一家公司在測試聲納設備時發現五十幾年前的墜機殘骸。而在墜機事件發生後，僅找到飛行員屍體其餘乘客遺體尋找近50年皆未尋獲。
從此一事件裡可以看出，這半世紀來全球生態改變劇烈，各地水庫的水位都出現了歷史新低的情況。想起台灣從去年似乎就沒有以往梅雨季的報到，颱風也僅有少許有經過台灣四周。而到今年甚至出現幾十年首度限水的決策，每天大家都在祈雨，從來沒有這麼盼望天空能下雨過。
新聞結尾的影片也值得深思，乾旱除了影響民生用水量之外也導致農作物無法順利耕種。更嚴重的情況可能不小心就引起火災使整片森林燃燒成灰燼，傷及民眾釀成另一悲劇。
希望大家看完文章後，記得節約用水，多加珍惜現今我們所擁有的。
Main Idea & My Thoughts
Because of climate change recently, drought across many states in the United States. This is the crisis at all aspects. The severity of California drought mentioned in the news has been lower than 1/2 of the normal water volume. Unexpectedly, it caused a local company to discover the wreckage of plane crash 50 years ago while testing the sonar system. After the crash incident, only the pilot body was found but the remains of the passengers were not found. It had been searching for nearly 50 years!
It can let us know from this incident that the global ecology has changed drastically in the past half century, and the water volume of reservoirs in various places and countries have reached historical lows. This also made me think of that since last year, it seems no any sign for rainy season and few typhoons passed around Taiwan. We even encounter the decision that need to limit water used volume in decades this year. Everyone is praying for rain every day, and we strongly hope it can be rainy as frequently as before.
There is a clip at the end of the news. It’s mentioned about affecting the water consumption of our livelihoods, the drought has also caused crops to be cultivated. More serious situation may accidentally cause a fire to burn the entire forest to ashes, hurt the people and lead to another tragedy.
Hope we all remember to save water after reading this news and cherish what we have today.