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Drill Pad on Wetlands, Russia

Photograph by Gerd Ludwig

This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature

A drill pad built on top of fragile wetlands probes for new oil reserves. Technology imported from the West is helping Russia’s oil industry modernize, but Soviet-era spills and pipeline breaks have contaminated much of the region.

See more photographs from the June 2008 feature story "Frozen Assets."

译文：

湿地上的钻井平台，俄罗斯

摄影：Gerd Ludwig

本月每日一图的主题是：自然

一个建造在脆弱的湿地上的钻井平台正在寻找新的石油资源。从西方引入的技术促进了俄罗斯石油工业的现代化建设，但是在苏维埃时代，溢出和管线破损就已经对这个地区造成了大范围污染。