13-10-25 Fresh air polluted by exhaust fumes and industrial emissions causes lung cancer, a team of World Health Organisation experts has officially declared. 世界卫生组织的专家们正式宣布，被汽车尾气和工业废气污染的空气会导致肺癌。 Outdoor air pollution was...

13-10-15 Air pollution is still continuing to damage European citizens' health and the environment, latest figures show. 最新数据显示，空气污染仍然在持续损害欧洲居民的健康与环境。 The European Environment Agency (EEA) listed tiny airborne particles and ozone...

13-09-12 Air rage is the general term for disruptive and/or violent behavior perpetrated by passengers and crew of aircraft, typically during flight. The first case of air rage was recorded in 1947 on a flight from Havana to Miami, when a drunk man assaulted...

13-09-06 Water Table Eliza Griswold My earliest wish was not to exist, to burst in the backyard without violence, no blood, no fleshy bits, mute button pressed alone behind the rectory where no one would see me. This wasn't a plea to be found or mourned for,...

13-09-06 Dyke Robin Becker The word came after me, then hid each time I turned to look at it. It breathed in the hedge（树篱，障碍） . I could hear it bite and snap the air. I feared the woman with slicked-back hair sitting on a bar stool, her back to the da...

13-07-25 Broom Marni Ludwig My floor is shining because it is fire. My ceiling is shining because it is air. You are sweeping the future ahead of you like luck. It's ok, no one's listening to the laugh track of your life. The sick call in their jokes, but th...

13-07-14 A new study links heavy air pollution from coal burning to shorter lives in northern China. Researchers estimate that the half-billion people alive there in the 1990s will live an average of 5 years less than their southern counterparts because they...

13-07-13 More than two million deaths occur worldwide each year as a direct result of human-caused outdoor air pollution, a new study has found. In addition, while it has been suggested that a changing climate can exacerbate（加剧，恶化） the effects of air...

13-05-31 Stanford University scientists have developed an advanced zinc-air battery with higher catalytic activity and durability than similar batteries made with costly platinum（铂） and iridium（铱） catalysts. The results, published in the May 7 online e...

13-05-05 Breathing particulate-laden (aka smoggy) air may be hardening your arteries faster than normal, according to research published today in PLOS Medicine. 根据今日发表在《公共科学图书馆医学》杂志上的研究，呼吸含大量颗粒物的（雾霾）空气可能会让你的动脉...