采茶人也感受到了气候变化的影响。在收获季节,气温的升高会令采茶人更容易中暑。
4 Honey 蜂蜜
More than one-third of America's honeybees have been lost to Colony Collapse Disorder, but climate change is having its own effects on bee behavior. According to a 2016 US Department of Agriculture study, rising carbon dioxide levels are decreasing the protein levels in pollen — a bee's main food source. As a result, bees aren't getting enough nutrition, which in turn can lead to less reproduction and even eventual die-off. As USDA plant physiologist Lewis Ziska puts it, "Pollen is becoming junk food for bees."
超三分之一的美国蜜蜂都死于蜂群衰竭失调症,但气候变化对蜜蜂行为也产生了影响。根据美国农业部2016年的一项研究,二氧化碳水平上升令花粉中的蛋白质水平下降,而花粉是蜜蜂的主要食物来源。结果蜜蜂不能获得足够的营养,从而影响繁衍甚至导致灭绝。正如美国农业部的植物生理学家路易斯·切斯卡所说,“花粉对蜜蜂而言正变成垃圾食品。”
But that's not the only way climate is messing with bees. Warmer temperatures and earlier snow melt can trigger earlier spring flowering of plants and trees; so early, in fact, that bees may still be in the larva stage and not yet mature enough to pollinate them.
不过这不是气候让蜜蜂遭殃的唯一方式。气温升高和融雪提早会让植物和树更早开花,事实上,正因为花开得太早了,蜜蜂可能还在幼虫期,没有成熟到可以授粉。
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