1. Artemisinin resistance solutions
青蒿素抗药性获新突破
Nobel Prize winner Tu Youyou's team on Monday announced major scientific breakthroughs in treatment of artemisinin resistance.
诺贝尔奖得主屠呦呦的团队17日宣布，在青蒿素抗药性治疗方面取得重大科学性突破。
The World Malaria Report 2018 published by the World Health Organization said that global malaria control progress has stalled.
世卫组织发布的《2018年世界疟疾报告》称，全球疟疾防治进展陷入停滞阶段。
Artemisinin resistance and partner drug resistance has been reported in Greater Mekong subregion.
大湄公河次区域已出现青蒿素抗药性和辅助药物抗药性。
In response to this problem, Tu said that after three years of research, her team found treatment to artemisinin resistance.
针对上述问题，屠呦呦表示，经过三年的研究，其团队已找到青蒿素抗药性的治疗方法。
"Prolonging the period of taking the medicine, or replacing the partner drug, could solve the problem of resistance," Tu said.
屠呦呦称，延长用药时间或更换辅助药物可解决抗药性的问题。
Her team also found that artemisinin has a special effect in treating lupus erythematosus.
屠呦呦团队还发现青蒿素在治疗红斑狼疮方面效果独特。
"It has been seen that artemisinin is effective in treating LE. We are cautiously optimistic about the success of experiments," Tu said.
她表示："青蒿素对治疗红斑狼疮存在有效性趋势，我们对试验成功持谨慎的乐观。"
2. Most pledges not collected
巴黎圣母院捐款不到账
The billionaire French donors who publicly promised flashy donations totaling hundreds of millions to rebuild Notre Dame have not yet paid a penny toward the restoration of the French national monument, according to church and business officials.
据法国当地教会和商界人士称，曾公开承诺将为重建巴黎圣母院捐赠巨资的法国亿万富翁捐赠者们，至今尚未为重建这座法国国家级古迹支付一分钱。
Instead, it's been mainly American and French citizens, via charitable foundations at Notre Dame, that have footed the bills and paid salaries for the up to 150 workers employed by the cathedral after the devastating blaze on April 15.
相反，4月15日大火发生后，主要是美国和法国的民众通过圣母院慈善基金会捐款，为教堂雇佣的150名工人支付了账单和薪水。
This month they are handing over the first payment for the cathedral's reconstruction of 3.6 million euros.
本月他们还将为教堂的重建工作支付首笔款项，金额为360万欧元。
Almost $1 billion was promised by some of France's richest and most powerful families and companies, some of whom sought to outbid each other, in the hours and days after the inferno.
法国一些最富有、最有权势的家族和公司曾经承诺将为巴黎圣母院提供近10亿美元的资金，其中一些家族和公司甚至在火灾后的数小时和数天内竞相提价以超过对方。
No money has been seen, according to Andre Finot, senior press official at Notre Dame.
巴黎圣母院高级新闻官员安德烈·菲诺特表示，这些资金目前连影儿都没有。
3. Greenland ice melting faster
格陵兰岛日融20亿吨冰
Over 40% of Greenland experienced melting Thursday, with total ice loss estimated to be more than 2 billion tons on just that day alone.
13日，格陵兰岛超过40%的地区经历了冰雪融化，据估计，该岛当天损失了超过20亿吨的冰量。
While Greenland is a big island filled with lots of ice, it is highly unusual for that much ice to be lost in the middle of June. The average "melt season" for Greenland runs from June to August, with the bulk of the melting occurring in July.
格陵兰岛被大量冰雪覆盖，每年6月至8月是它的融冰季，冰川融化的高峰在7月，现在6月中旬就有那么多冰雪融化是极不寻常的现象。
The sudden spike in melting "is unusual, but not unprecedented," according to Thomas Mote, a research scientist at the University of Georgia who studies Greenland's climate.
格陵兰岛气候研究专家、佐治亚大学的研究科学家托马斯·莫特表示，融冰量突然飙升非比寻常，但并非前所未有。
"It is comparable to some spikes we saw in June of 2012," Mote said, referring to the record-setting melt year of 2012 that saw almost the entire ice sheet experience melting for the first time in recorded history.
2012年是格陵兰岛融冰量创纪录的一年，经历了有记录以来首次几乎整个冰盖出现融冰，"目前的数据和2012年的某些峰值相当。"
This much melting this early in the summer could be a bad sign, indicating 2019 could once again set records for the amount of Greenland ice loss.
但初夏大规模融冰并非好现象，预示2019年可能再次创下格陵兰岛融冰量纪录。
If these extreme melt seasons are becoming the new normal, it could have significant ramifications around the globe, especially for sea level rise.
如果极端的融冰季成为新常态，可能会对全球产生重大影响，尤其是导致海平面上升。
"Greenland has been an increasing contributor to global sea level rise over the past two decades," Mote said.
莫特称："在过去20年里，格陵兰岛对全球海平面上升做出的'贡献'越来越大。"
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