More than 500 fires are burning near San Francisco, including in the wine growing region of Napa Valley and close to the high tech hub of Silicon Valley.
旧金山附近发生了500多起火灾,包括葡萄酒产区纳帕谷和高科技中心硅谷附近。
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New research has forecast that yields of hops, a key ingredient in most beers, could fall by up to eighteen per cent by 2050 in European growing regions.
The continent is projected to be the quickest growing region in the world in the future, and her GDP is expected to finally overtakes France and the United Kingdom by 2023 will still remain behind Germany then.
A growing region is an area suited by climate and soil conditions to the cultivation of a certain type of crop or plant group.
Most crops are cultivated not in one place only, but in several distinct regions in diverse parts of the world. Cultivation in these areas may be enabled by a large-scale regional climate, or by a unique microclimate.