2021年10月

华卡雷瓦雷瓦森林的红木纪念树林，新西兰北岛 Redwood Memorial Grove in Whakarewarewa Forest, North Island, New Zealand (© Michael Breitung/Huber/eStock Photo)

A walk among the giants

On the New Zealand's North Island, Whakarewarewa Forest is home to a diverse range of native plants and animals. There's also a series of lakes as well as hot springs, bubbling mud pools, and even active geysers. But Whakarewarewa Forest features something that no other forest in New Zealand can claim: a grove of majestic redwood trees called the Redwood Memorial Grove. The trees in the grove were introduced from their native California at the beginning of the 20th century.

Today, the Redwood Memorial Grove is a popular hotspot for tourists hoping to walk among the giants, with an elevated walkway that winds through the roughly 600 acres of redwoods. Some of the trees have grown as high as 230-feet in the century since they were planted. These California transplants seem to have taken to their new home quite well.

在巨人之间散步

在新西兰北岛，Whakarewarewa森林是多种本地动植物的家园。这里还有一系列湖泊、温泉、冒着气泡的泥浆池，甚至还有活跃的间歇泉。但Whakarewarwa森林的特色是新西兰其他森林所不能声称的：一片雄伟的红杉林，称为红杉纪念林。树林中的树木是20世纪初从他们的家乡加利福尼亚州引进的。

今天，红杉纪念林是希望在巨人中漫步的游客的热门景点，它有一条高架人行道蜿蜒穿过大约600英亩的红杉林。自种植以来，其中一些树木在本世纪已高达230英尺。这些加利福尼亚州的移植物似乎很好地适应了他们的新家。

哈特谢普苏特女王神庙鸟瞰图，埃及卢克索古城 Aerial view of the Temple of Hatshepsut near Luxor, Egypt (© Ratnakorn Piyasirisorost/Moment/Getty Images)

Unearthing a queen's lost tale

Almost 3,500 years ago under Queen Hatshepsut's reign, Egypt enjoyed decades of peace and flourishing culture, and this elegant temple is just one piece of her larger-than-life legacy. But the pharaoh who succeeded Hatshepsut forbade all mention of her rule, taking credit for her monuments and leaving her name all but unknown for millennia.

By the 19th century, many archaeologists had noticed a gap in the recorded succession of pharaohs. Through their efforts decoding hieroglyphics, cataloging artifacts, and finally excavating Hatshepsut's great temple in 1906, the greatest woman ruler of her time began reclaiming her place in the history books.

Isn't it lucky we have people willing to dirty their hands and dig up the truth? On International Archaeology Day, which happens every third Saturday of October, we're celebrating those who solve human history's mysteries: the archaeologists of the past, present, and future.

发掘一个女王丢失的故事

大约3500年前，在哈特谢普苏特女王的统治下，埃及享有数十年的和平与繁荣的文化，而这座优雅的神庙只是她超越生命的遗产中的一部分。但是继承哈特谢普苏特的法老禁止任何人提及她的统治，因为她的纪念碑而受到赞扬，数千年来她的名字几乎无人知晓。

到了19世纪，许多考古学家已经注意到法老王的继承记录有一个缺口。通过对象形文字的解码，对文物进行编目，并最终在1906年挖掘哈特谢普苏特的大庙，这位当时最伟大的女统治者开始重新在历史书中占有一席之地。

我们有人愿意弄脏他们的手，挖掘真相，这不是很幸运吗？在每年十月的第三个星期六举行的国际考古学日，我们要庆祝那些解开人类历史之谜的人：过去、现在和未来的考古学家。

世界著名气泡酒产地普罗塞克山丘,意大利威尼托 Farra di Soligo in the Prosecco Hills of Veneto, Italy (© Olimpio Fantuz/Sime/eStock Photo)

Autumn in the Prosecco Hills

It's fall here in the Prosecco Hills of northeastern Italy. We're just outside Farra di Soligo, a village about 30 miles northwest of Venice. This region is known for growing the glera grape used to make the white wine called prosecco. Once a humble sparkling wine, and considered a poor cousin to Champagne, prosecco now eclipses Champagne in global popularity. More than 600 million bottles of prosecco were produced in Italy in 2018, about twice the amount of Champagne.

Of those 600 million bottles produced a year, about 90 million bottles of prosecco come from the Prosecco Hills region. Like most Italian grape-growing areas, the Prosecco Hills boast a spectacular landscape. Small plots of grapes have grown on narrow grassy terraces known as 'ciglioni' since the 17th century. From above, the ciglioni produce a checkerboard effect with vines growing both horizontally along and vertical to the hillsides. Some plots even use the 19th-century 'bellussera' technique of training the grapevines to grow up along trees. This region is so distinctive, it was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019.

普洛塞科山的秋天

它落在意大利东北部的普罗塞科山上。我们就在法拉·迪·索利戈（Farra di Soligo）外面，这是一个距离威尼斯西北约30英里的村庄。这一地区以种植用来酿造白葡萄酒普罗塞科（prosecco）的格雷拉葡萄而闻名。普罗塞科一度是一种谦逊的起泡酒，被认为是香槟的穷表亲，但现在它在全球的受欢迎程度超过了香槟。2018年，意大利生产了6亿多瓶prosecco，约为香槟产量的两倍。

在每年生产的6亿瓶产品中，约有9000万瓶来自prosecco Hills地区。像大多数意大利葡萄种植区一样，普洛塞科山拥有壮观的景观。自17世纪以来，小片葡萄种植在被称为“ciglioni”的狭窄草地梯田上。从上面看，ciglioni产生了棋盘效应，藤蔓沿山坡水平和垂直生长。一些葡萄园甚至采用19世纪的“贝卢斯拉”技术，训练葡萄沿着树木生长。该地区非常独特，2019年被联合国教科文组织命名为世界遗产。

星空下的仙人掌家族，美国萨瓜罗国家公园 Saguaro 'family' and Milky Way, Saguaro National Park, Arizona (© Christian Foto Az/Shutterstock)

Happy birthday, Saguaro National Park

If you know what these distinctively shaped cactuses are called, you can name this patch of public land in the Sonoran Desert. Saguaro National Park was established on this day in 1994 to protect giant saguaros like these. The slow-growing, prickly behemoths have been known to reach almost 80 feet into the Arizona sky. Just don't be tempted to climb one—take it from us, a closer look at that celestial display isn't worth getting jabbed by 3-inch saguaro spines.

生日快乐，萨瓜罗国家公园

如果你知道这些形状独特的仙人掌叫什么，你可以把这片公共土地命名为索诺兰沙漠。萨瓜罗国家公园是在1994年的这一天建立的，旨在保护像这样的巨型萨瓜罗。这只生长缓慢、多刺的庞然大物已被发现能伸入亚利桑那州的天空近80英尺。只是不要被诱惑去攀爬，从我们这里拿走它，更仔细地看一看天空的显示是不值得被3英寸的萨瓜罗刺戳的。

侏罗纪时期的鱼龙化石，英国多塞特 An ichthyosaur fossil of the Jurassic period, Dinosaurland Fossil Museum, Lyme Regis, Dorset, England (© Christopher Jones/Alamy)

Celebrating a young girl's age-old discovery

When 12-year-old Mary Anning uncovered the complete skeleton of a fish-like creature near her home on England's southern coast in 1811, extinction was a shaky idea in science. Fossils were nothing new—everything dies and leaves remains, after all. But could an entire species really die off? Were more of these 17-foot sea monsters lurking in the depths of the English Channel?

The fact that ichthyosaurs like this went extinct 90 million years ago seems obvious today (which, by the way, is National Fossil Day). But though such definite answers were still only suspicions during Mary Anning's lifetime, she persisted with paleontology. Her prolific fossil finds fueled both public interest and scientific understanding, and she even discovered two more species in her 20s: the pterodactyl and the plesiosaur. Though she died young at 47, largely denied recognition as a woman in Victorian society, her influence endures like the fossils that fascinated her.

庆祝一个年轻女孩的古老发现

1811年，当12岁的玛丽·安宁（Mary Anning）在她位于英格兰南部海岸的家附近发现了一具鱼形生物的完整骨架时，灭绝在科学上是一个不可靠的想法。化石并不是什么新鲜事，毕竟，一切都会死去，树叶也会留下。但整个物种真的会灭绝吗？这些17英尺高的海怪中有更多潜伏在英吉利海峡深处吗？

像这样的鱼龙在9000万年前灭绝的事实在今天看来是显而易见的（顺便说一句，这是国家化石日）。但尽管在玛丽·安宁的一生中，这些明确的答案仍然只是怀疑，但她坚持使用古生物学。她丰富的化石发现激发了公众兴趣和科学理解，她甚至在20多岁的时候又发现了两个物种：翼手龙和蛇颈龙。尽管她英年早逝，享年47岁，在维多利亚时代基本上被否认是一名女性，但她的影响就像让她着迷的化石一样持久。

布列塔尼大区的城市圣马洛，法国 Saint-Malo in Brittany, France (© Mathieu Rivrin/Moment/Getty Images)

High tide at the walled city

Saint-Malo was founded by the Gauls more than 2,000 years ago and has an appropriately rich and storied history. Built on the Brittany coast of the English Channel, Saint-Malo became an important stop for ships coming into and out of Western Europe. And because of its strategic location, Saint-Malo was, for a time, a favorite spot for pirates, corsairs, and privateers—as ships made their way through the channel, pirates lurking off the Saint-Malo coast could pounce easily while French authorities looked the other way. Now it's a tourist spot where visitors can walk down the city's historic streets.

城墙上的涨潮

圣马洛由高卢人在2000多年前建立，有着相当丰富的历史。圣马洛位于英吉利海峡的布列塔尼海岸，成为进出西欧船只的重要停靠站。由于其战略位置，圣马洛曾一度是海盗、海盗和私掠者的最爱之地。当船只通过英吉利海峡时，潜伏在圣马洛海岸外的海盗可以轻易地突袭，而法国当局则另眼相看。现在它是一个旅游景点，游客可以在这里沿着城市的历史街区漫步。

拉莫里斯国家公园中的Wapizagonke湖区，加拿大魁北克 The Wapizagonke Lake in La Mauricie National Park, Quebec, Canada (© Instants/Getty Images)

Vibrant colours of Fall

This majestic view of the Wapizagonke Lake encapsulates the spirit of autumn through the vibrant display of colours. Located between Québec City and Montréal, La Mauricie National Park is a site for all types of nature lovers. The park offers activities such as hiking, kayaking, paddling, bird watching, ice climbing and even star gazing. With more than 150 lakes and home to one of the oldest mountain ranges – the Laurentian Mountains - La Mauricie National Park is a destination filled with spectacular vistas all-year-round.

秋天的鲜艳色彩

瓦皮扎贡克湖的壮丽景色通过生动的色彩展示，体现了秋天的精神。La Mauricie国家公园位于魁北克市和蒙特勒尔之间，是各类自然爱好者的聚集地。公园里有徒步旅行、皮划艇、划船、观鸟、攀冰，甚至还有观星等活动。拉莫里西国家公园拥有150多个湖泊，是最古老的山脉之一——劳伦斯山脉的所在地，是一个终年景色壮观的目的地。

Khuean Srinagarindra国家公园的Huay Mae Khamin瀑布,泰国 Huay Mae Khamin waterfall in Khuean Srinagarindra National Park, Thailand (© Casper1774Studio/Getty Images)

Great on so many levels

Water flows evenly over seven distinct tiers of packed earth at Huay Mae Khamin waterfall, a remote gem 4 hours' drive northwest of Bangkok. Part of Khuean Srinagarindra National Park, the falls feature a trail network leading up to each terrace, offering visitors a close-up look at every level of the picturesque cascade.

在很多层面上都很棒

在华美哈明瀑布，水流均匀地流过七层不同的堆积土。华美哈明瀑布位于曼谷西北部，距离遥远，只有4小时车程。瀑布是Khuean Srinagarindra国家公园的一部分，有一条通往每个露台的小径网络，游客可以近距离观察风景如画的瀑布的每一层。

A valley view at 9,000 feet

This is the Dallas Divide, but we're hundreds of miles from (and 8,500 feet above) North Texas. This saddle amid the southwestern Colorado Rockies cuts a swath just north of the San Juan Mountains. Nestled in those peaks you'll find Telluride, Silverton, and other former mining towns that got a boost from the Rio Grande Southern Railroad when it came to the Dallas Divide in 1890. Nowadays the divide hosts US Highway 62, a less-traveled byway for most Colorado travelers—but worth the detour if you're keen on a sweeping valley vista.

海拔9000英尺的山谷景色

这是达拉斯分水岭，但我们离北德克萨斯州数百英里（海拔8500英尺）。这座位于科罗拉多州落基山脉西南部的马鞍山在圣胡安山脉以北划出一条狭长的地带。坐落在这些山峰上，你会发现泰勒里德、西尔弗顿和其他以前的矿业城镇，这些城镇在1890年到达达拉斯分水岭时受到了格兰德南部铁路的推动。如今，这条分水岭拥有美国62号公路，对于大多数科罗拉多州的旅行者来说，这是一条人迹罕至的小道，但如果你想看到一片广阔的山谷景色，那么绕道而行是值得的。

中国江苏省南通市幼儿园学生在画布上绘画的鸟瞰图 Aerial view of kindergarteners drawing on a canvas in Nantong, in the Jiangsu province of China (© Xu Hui/VCG via Getty Images)

A day to celebrate teachers

Today is World Teachers' Day. The UN created this day back in 1994 to draw attention to the vital role that teachers play in providing kids like these a quality education. The observation also highlights the obstacles that teachers face every day, particularly in challenging times like these.

Despite the massive disruptions to classrooms around the world because of the coronavirus pandemic, teachers everywhere have continued to work hard every day to encourage young people to learn and grow, and to think about the world around us. So, when these kindergartners are finished drawing, our hope is that they let their teachers know how appreciated they are! And we hope you can do something special for the teachers in your lives today, too.

庆祝教师节

今天是世界教师节。联合国早在1994年就设立了这一天，以提请人们注意教师在为这些孩子提供优质教育方面所起的重要作用。这项观察还突出了教师每天面临的障碍，特别是在这样一个充满挑战的时代。

尽管冠状病毒大流行对世界各地的教室造成了巨大的破坏，但各地的教师每天都在继续努力工作，鼓励年轻人学习和成长，并思考我们周围的世界。所以，当这些幼儿园的孩子们完成绘画时，我们希望他们能让他们的老师知道他们是多么的感激他们！我们也希望你们能在今天的生活中为老师们做些特别的事情。

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