吃货的噩耗！气候变化正令10种食物变得濒危_BEC初级作文

吃货的噩耗！气候变化正令10种食物变得濒危

2 Chocolate 巧克力

Coffee's culinary cousin, cacao (aka chocolate), is also suffering stress from global warming's rising temperatures. But for chocolate, it isn't the warmer climate alone that's the problem. Cacao trees actually prefer warmer climates... as long as that warmth is paired with high humidity and abundant rain (i.e., a rainforest climate). According to the 2017 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the problem is, the higher temperatures projected for the world's leading chocolate-producing countries (Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Indonesia) are not expected to be accompanied by an increase in rainfall. So as higher temperatures sap more moisture from soil and plants through evaporation, it's unlikely that rainfall will increase enough to offset this moisture loss.

咖啡的美味伴侣可可豆（也就是巧克力）也遭受着全球变暖带来的压力。不过对于巧克力而言，气候变暖并不是问题所在。可可树其实更喜欢炎热的天气，前提是伴有较高的湿度和充足的雨水（也就是热带雨林气候）。根据政府间气候变化专门委员会2017年的报告，问题在于世界上主要巧克力生产国（科特迪瓦、加纳和印尼）的高温天气并没有伴随着降雨的增多。高温的蒸发带走了泥土和植株的更多水分，而降雨又不足以抵消水分的流失。

In this same report, the IPCC predicts that these effects could reduce cocoa production, which means 1 million less tons of bars, truffles, and powder per year by 2020.