【04,27】---【2】A global environmental update----世界最新环境资讯

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Meanwhile, according to The Guardian, a consortium of scientists is urging creation of a US$13.5 million programme to prevent potentially catastrophic wildfires inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Fires, they fear, could release clouds of radioactive particles that are now locked in trees, held mainly in the needles and bark of Scots pines.

Protests and legal challenges against shale-gas extraction and the environmental damage it causes are growing in southern France, English barrister Michael Mansfield wrote in The Guardian. Events in France, Mansfield said, offer “supreme lessons” for other parts of Europe – especially the UK, where he urged a similar campaign “before it is too late”.

And even in Texas, the US heart of the oil and gas business, public concern is emerging about the effects of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the controversial gas-drilling method now used in more than half of new gas wells in the state, The New York Times reported.

Traditionally poor yet fast-growing countries – from the Gulf states to China – are catching up in both affluence and obesity, according to The Financial Times. In Brazil, where changes in diet and lifestyle are bringing new problems, public-health specialists are fighting to reduce the food industry’s influence on the country’s eating habits.

The BBC cited two studies that found that the extent of CO2 emissions embedded in imported goods is growing. Official data do not include emissions from producing such goods, but the researchers say they should.

The US Environmental Protection Agency launched a year-long campaign to collect photographs from around the world for its State of the Environment Photo Project, the Associated Press said. The EPA urges members of the public to post their best photographs on Flickr.

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此外，《卫报》报道，科学家联盟正加紧促成一项花费1350万美元的方案，防止切尔诺贝利禁区内可能引发灾难的野火。禁区内的苏格兰松树的针叶和树皮上附着放射性粒子云，科学家们担心一旦发生火灾，这些放射性粒子云将被释放。

英国大律师迈克尔菲尔德在《卫报》撰文称，在法国南部，反对页岩气开采的呼声越来越大，对页岩气危害环境的诉讼也同时在日渐增加。他表示法国人民的一系列活动为欧洲提供了最好的示范教材。他还认为英国必须避免亡羊补牢的局面，应汲取法国的经验，立刻开展类似的活动。

即使在美国石油和天然气产业的核心地区的得克萨斯州，公众对兴起的水力压裂开采技术也感到不安。在美国，超过一半新开采的天然气矿采用这种饱受争议的技术。《纽约时报》报道。

据《金融时报》报道，从海湾国家到中国，居住在这些新兴发展中国家的穷人们，生计得到改善的同时也面临着肥胖症的侵袭。在巴西，饮食习惯和生活方式的转变带来了一系列问题，公共健康专家正努力试图减缓食品工业对该国饮食文化的负面影响。

BBC消息，两项研究发现，进口商品的碳足迹实际上在日益增大。官方提供的数据不包含进口商品在制造国所产生的碳排放，但研究人员认为这应被纳入考量。

美国环境保护署发起一项为期一年的活动，向全世界召集环境题材的摄影作品，鼓励公众上传并分享他们拍摄的环境照片到Flikcr相册，美联社报道。
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英文翻译一下，看不懂。