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A | 1月9日消息今日，来自蚁林的官方消息称，蚁林将于1月10日中午12点释放沙棘。众所周知，生长沙棘需要18.88公斤的能量。

B | SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California officials on Thursday faulted communities in a stretch of the crop-rich San Joaquin Valley for failing to develop a plan to adequately protect groundwater in the often drought-plagued state.The state's water resources board set an April hearing to determine whether the Tulare Lake Subbasin in the heart of California's farm country should be placed on probation. It is the first time the state has made such a move, and the first step in a lengthy process that could end up requiring large farms in the area to report groundwater use and pay fees.California is starting to regulate the pumping of groundwater after years of drought and overpumping left rural residents’ wells dry and led to subsidence, or the sinking of land, in some communities. Both issues have affected the largely agricultural region, which is home to 145,000 people, and stand to worsen absent revisions to the local groundwater plan, officials said.“This is an urgent issue,” said Natalie Stork, an official at the State Water Resources Control Board. “There are urgent impacts from continued overdraft in these basins.”The state enacted a 2014 law tasking communities with forming groundwater agencies and making plans to manage the resource sustainably, starting with the most critically overdrafted basins, including the Tulare Lake Subbasin.Five groundwater agencies joined together come up with a plan for the subbasin where farmers grow cotton, almonds and pistachios. But the plan was one of six that California's Department of Water Resources deemed inadequate this year.Now, the State Water Resources Control Board will hold a hearing April 16 to decide whether to place the Tulare Lake Subbasin on probation. If it does, large pumpers would report their groundwater usage and pay fees while the local agencies draft a new plan for the basin. If they don't, the board could eventually implement its own plan.Many communities rely mainly or solely on groundwater for drinking water and farmers count on it for irrigation, especially in a drought. California muddled through a spell of dry years until a series of winter storms drenched the state and dumped massive amounts of snow in the mountains. When the snow melted, it flowed down to form the reemerging Tulare Lake, which covered vast stretches of farmland with water. California has long tended toward wet and dry periods, but scientists at University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have said they expect climate change will lead to drier dry years and wetter wet years.。沙棘，一种有刺的落叶灌木，原产于亚洲和欧洲的温带和冷温带地区。沙棘能防风固沙。

C | 它的果实可以吃，也可以用来制作饮料。

D | 此外，沙棘果实在美容和医学上也很有价值。

E | 沙棘是一种落叶灌木，高度在2-4米之间。它的枝条粗糙，皮肤黝黑，叶子披针形。雌雄异株在种植三年后开花，通过风传播种子。沙棘根系发达，其根与法兰克菌共生。沙棘果重270至480毫克，富含维生素C、E、B12、类胡萝卜素、类黄酮和脂肪酸。去年11月19日，蚂蚁林上的新沙棘立即上线，来自广东、浙江、江苏、上海和河南的朋友抢走了全国一半的沙棘。