离奥运会只剩下几周了，中国在奋力除水藻
To Save Olympic Sailing Races, China Fights Algaehttp://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/01/world/01algae.600.jpg EyePress, via Associated Press
A barge at Qingdao, site of the Olympic sailing regatta in August, wassurrounded by algae last week. The Chinese have begun a huge cleanupeffort.
BEIJING — With less than six weeks before it plays hostto the Olympic sailing regatta, the city of Qingdao, China, hasmobilized thousands of people and an armada of small boats to clean upan algal bloom choking the coastline and threatening to impede thecompetition.
BEIJING — With less than six weeks before it plays host to theOlympic sailing regatta, the city of Qingdao, China, has mobilizedthousands of people and an armada of small boats to clean up an algalbloom choking the coastline and threatening to impede the competition.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/01/world/01algae2.190h.jpg Two soldiers from the People’s Liberation Army clearing flora on Monday along the coastline in Qingdao.
Local officials have begun an intense effort to clean up the algae bymid-July. News reports estimate as many as 20,000 people have eithervolunteered or been ordered to participate in the operation, while1,000 boats are scooping algae out of the Yellow Sea. The country’sofficial news agency, Xinhua, reported that algae currently cover athird of the coastal waters designated for the Olympic competition.
Water quality has been a concern for the Olympic sailing events. Manycoastal Chinese cities dump untreated sewage into the sea, and riversand tributaries emptying into coastal waters are often contaminatedwith high levels of nitrates from agricultural and industrial runoff.These nitrates contribute to the red tides of algae that often bloomalong sections of China’s coastline.
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Volunteers helped to clean up a huge algae bloom in Qingdao on Monday.
Butofficials in Qingdao said in recent days that pollution and poor waterquality did not have a “substantial link” to the current outbreak,according to Xinhua. Instead, scientists blamed the increased rainfalland warmer waters in the Yellow Sea for the bloom. Algae blooms nowaffect more than 5,000 square miles of seawater, Xinhua reported.
“We will make all our efforts to finish this job,” said a propagandaofficial in Qingdao, who asked not to be named because of the politicaldelicacy of the issue. “Now, forces from the entire province havebecome involved.” He said ships and boats have been dispatched from twoother coastal cities, Rizhao and Yantai, to help haul away the algae.
Yuan Zhiping, an official with the Qingdao Olympic Sailing Committee,said Sunday that the government would try to block algae from floatinginto the Olympic sailing area by installing in the sea a fencedperimeter more than 30 miles long.
“I believe we will makesure the Olympics sailing area is clean by July 15 through our efforts,and make sure the Olympics sailing goes smoothly,” Mr. Yuan said,according to the Shandong News Web site.
[ 本帖最后由 ERICHANSA 于 2008-7-26 00:01 编辑 ] 我有几点不同意见。
纽约时报的错误点：algal bloom，学术界的翻译就是赤潮爆发，文中也提到过就是red tides。不过似乎纽约时报还引用了xinhua的报道，不知道怎么搞得，非常不专业的报道。但是有一点必须明确，赤潮对海洋是非常有害的。
这是最近发生在青岛海域的浒苔，浒苔属于大型藻类，和赤潮中的微小藻类有根本区别。浒苔的爆发是世界性难题。只要加大打捞力度就可以消除浒苔，但是赤潮确难的很多。当然，浒苔的发生与环境有一定关系，但是青岛的浒苔都是从外海域漂来的。浒苔的爆发与海水温度，盐度都有关系。
中国近海有许多地方都有赤潮发生，但是这次不是。
[ 本帖最后由 lixm 于 2008-7-15 20:44 编辑 ]
年年办奥运
除非 年年办奥运，否则这些生态危机根本上没法治理和消除。真得替祖国担心啊，大好河山，如何才能传到后世的手中时不被骂，说我们这些曾
经作老祖宗的，没有人性! 我们真的没有人性吗，自然会给答案的。
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