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Hydrocarbon gases bubbling from the bottom of the Red Sea are polluting the atmosphere at a rate equivalent to the emissions of some large fossil fuel exporting countries, researchers said Tuesday.

研究人员周二表示，从红海底部冒出的碳氢化合物气体对大气的污染速度相当于一些大型化石燃料出口国的排放量。

The gases seeping from the waters - which are ringed by the resorts and ports of several countries, including Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia - then mix with emissions from industrial shipping and turned into noxious pollutants that are very harmful to human health.

从水域渗出的气体-被包括埃及、以色列、约旦和沙特阿拉伯在内的几个国家的度假村和港口环绕-然后与工业航运的排放物混合，变成对人类健康非常有害的有毒污染物。

The Middle East holds more than half of the world's oil and gas reserves and the intense fossil fuel exploitation that takes place there, and the region releases enormous amounts of gaseous pollutants into the atmosphere.

中东拥有世界上一半以上的石油和天然气储量，以及在那里进行的密集的化石燃料开采，该地区向大气中释放了大量的气态污染物。

But during a 2017 expedition around the Gulf, researchers at the Max Plank Institute for Chemistry noticed that levels of ethane and propane in the air above the Northern Red Sea were up to 40 times higher than predicted, even accounting for regional manmade emissions.

但在2017年围绕墨西哥湾进行的一次探险中，马克斯·普兰克化学研究所(Max Plank Institute For Chemical)的研究人员注意到，红海北部上空的空气中乙烷和丙烷的浓度比预期高出40倍，甚至算上了该地区的人为排放。

The team analysed possible sources for the gas emissions, including traffic, agriculture, burning of biomass, and power generation from hydrocarbons.