Tiberium contamination affects Yellow Zones directly and indirectly. Climate change, melting glacial ice, extreme weather, Tiberium field growth, and decades of war have caused social collapse in several Yellow Zones. Many cities in the most afflicted areas are run by warlords and criminal organizations or have degenerated into anarchy - or they have fallen under the thrall of the sinister Brotherhood of Nod.

?Existence in the worst-off Yellow Zones is not pleasant at all. Your home is likely to be in a decaying building with no running water. Power comes on for a few hours a day at erratic times. Food is scarce. Doctors are rare. On a few occasions food aid or medical care will be provided by humanitarian workers visiting from the pristine and high tech Blue Zones.

?A subsistence living is just the start. Tiberium contamination is a fact of life, and thousands die every year from inhaling microscopic crystals that are carried in smog, clouds of dust, and other airborne particulates. Tiberium may even fall out of the sky suspended in rain drops if the clouds overhead have passed through a Red Zone during or after an Ion Storm. Because of the drought conditions in many Yellow Zones, rain showers are often greeted by the local populations with an odd mix of fear, dread, and joy.

?In the harsh reality of a Yellow Zone, Tiberium is not the only threat. If Tiberium doesn't get you, then you are likely to fall victim to a violent crime, get caught in the crossfire between warlords clashing over turf, or become a collateral damage statistic in the global war between the armies of the Global Defense Initiative and the Brotherhood of Nod.

泰伯利亞污染直接或間接的影響黃區(qū)。氣候變化，冰川融化，極端天氣，泰礦地增長，和數(shù)十年的戰(zhàn)爭已經(jīng)導(dǎo)致數(shù)個(gè)黃區(qū)社會(huì)崩潰。許多受災(zāi)最嚴(yán)重的城市已經(jīng)被軍閥和犯罪組織控制，或者變?yōu)闊o政府狀態(tài)——或者他們被邪惡的Nod兄弟會(huì)奴役。

?在最糟糕的黃區(qū)生活可一點(diǎn)不愉快。你可能是住在沒有自來水的破樓里。每天不穩(wěn)定的幾小時(shí)電力供應(yīng)。食物緊缺。醫(yī)生稀少。只有少數(shù)時(shí)候來自未受破壞又高科技的藍(lán)區(qū)人道主義者會(huì)帶來糧食援助或醫(yī)療服務(wù)。

?勉強(qiáng)生存的生活只是開始。泰伯利亞污染無處不在，每年都有數(shù)千人因吸入煙霧、塵埃云和其他空氣微粒中的微小晶體而死。如果頭頂?shù)脑茖釉陔x子風(fēng)暴期間或之后穿過了紅區(qū)，泰伯利亞甚至可能混著雨滴里從天而降。因?yàn)樵S多黃區(qū)都有干旱的情況，當(dāng)?shù)鼐用窠?jīng)常會(huì)以混雜的害怕，擔(dān)心和喜悅的心情迎接陣雨。

?在黃區(qū)殘酷的現(xiàn)實(shí)中，泰伯利亞不是唯一的威脅。如果泰礦沒有找上你，你也有可能成為暴力犯罪的受害者，被卷入軍閥爭奪地盤混戰(zhàn)的交火中，或者成為GDI與Nod全球戰(zhàn)爭的附帶損失數(shù)據(jù)。