Earliest cherry blossom bloom
日本迎千年最早櫻花季

Cherry blossoms, also known as "sakura", which experience a "peak bloom" that only lasts a few days, have been revered in Japan for more than a thousand years.
"盛花期"只有幾天的櫻花一千多年來在日本備受推崇。

Crowds celebrate with viewing parties, flocking to the most popular locations to take photos and have picnics underneath the branches.
人們舉辦賞花會來慶祝，蜂擁到熱門景點拍照，在櫻花樹下野餐。

But this year, cherry blossom season has come and gone in the blink of an eye, in one of the earliest blooms on record -- and scientists warn it's a symptom of the larger climate crisis threatening ecosystems everywhere.
但是今年，櫻花季眨眼之間來了又去，花期前所未有地早?？茖W家警告說，這預示著更大規(guī)模威脅各地生態(tài)系統(tǒng)的氣候危機即將到來。

In the central city of Kyoto, cherry blossoms peaked on March 26, the earliest in more than 1,200 years.
京都市中心的櫻花在3月26日達到全盛，這是1200多年來最早的一次。

There are two sources of increased heat, which is the main factor making the flowers bloom earlier: Urbanization and climate change.
導致櫻花早開的主要因素是來自城市化和氣候變化兩大源頭的高溫。

With increased urbanization, cities tend to get warmer than the surrounding rural area, in what is called the heat island effect.
隨著城市化水平提高，城市的溫度通常比周邊鄉(xiāng)村地區(qū)更高，這就是所謂的熱島效應。

But a bigger reason is climate change, which has caused rising temperatures across the region and the world.
但是更大的原因是導致該地區(qū)和全球氣溫升高的氣候變化。

And these earlier dates aren't just a matter of tourists scrambling to catch peak bloom before the petals all fall -- it could have a lasting impact on entire ecosystems, and threaten the survival of many species.
櫻花提早盛開不止讓游客難以在花謝之前一睹盛景，而且還會對整個生態(tài)系統(tǒng)產(chǎn)生持久的影響，并威脅到許多物種的生存。