专题 14 气候变化与珊瑚礁--2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练

2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练 (14) Climate change and coral reefs 气候变化与珊瑚礁 主题语境：人与自然 主题语境内容：自然生态 【外刊原文】（斜体单词为超纲词汇，认识即可；下划线单词为课标词汇，需熟记。） Human beings have been altering habitats—sometimes deliberately and sometimes accidentally—at least since the end of the last Ice Age. Now, though, that change is happening on a grand scale. Global warming is a growing factor. Fortunately, the human wisdom that is destroying nature can also be brought to bear on trying to save it. Some interventions to save ecosystems are hard to imagine and succeed. Consider a project to reintroduce something similar to a mammoth (猛犸象) to Siberia by gene-editing Asian elephants. Their feeding habits could restore the grassland habitat that was around before mammoths died out, increasing the sunlight reflected into space and helping keep carbon compounds (碳化合物) trapped in the soil. But other projects have a bigger chance of making an impact quickly. As we report, one example involves coral reefs. Th