amendment; correction; revision; modification; alteration; retouching
to arrange; to make an appointment; to agree upon
to ask after (someone's health); to visit; to attack; to strike; to meet with misfortune
freighter (vessel); cargo ship
circulation; rotation; cycle; loop
atmospheric current; air current; airflow
unseasonable; out of season
yellow sand; yellow dust; loess; desert
dumbfounded; in mute amazement
to rant and rave; to raise hell
relation; connection; relevance
weather; climate; disposition; temperament
alarm bell; fire bell; warning; wake-up call
drought; long spell (period) of dry weather
beginning (of a century, etc.)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; IPCC
sea level; (surface of) sea
to stop (moving); to come to a stop; to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to alight; to perch on
maximum temperature; highest temperature; (today's) high
basin (e.g. between mountains)
very great; enormous; serious
one's (living) environment
diagonally upward; (going in a) completely unexpected direction (of a story, result, etc.)
to run at full speed; to run and run; to try one's hardest
vast; huge; immense; malva nut (Sterculia lychnophora)