11-06-21 The rate of sea level rise along the U.S. Atlantic coast is greater now than at any time in the past 2,000 years--and has shown a consistent link between changes in global mean surface temperature and sea level. The findings are published this week...
11-06-12 Teacher: Matthew, what is the climate of New Zealand? Matthew: Very cold, sir. Teacher: Wrong. Matthew: But, sir! When they send us meat it always arrives frozen!...
11-06-11 Australia is considering proposals to kill all the wild camels that roam the outback as part of its contribution to fighting global warming. 为抵御全球气候变暖,澳大利亚正考虑接受捕杀所有内陆地区野生骆驼的建议。 The 1.2 million camels, considered pe...
11-06-10 In April 2007, teacher Irka Elsevier and then-graduate student Biance Moebius-Clune began their second inquiry unit designed to enable high school students to better understand soil science concepts through their own research and experiments. Moebiu...
11-06-09 Animals and plants may not be able to evolve their way out of the threat posed by climate change, according to a UC Davis study of a tiny seashore animal. The work was published today (June 8) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The t...
11-04-23 2011年4月22日是第42个世界地球日,今年的主题是珍惜地球资源,转变发展方式。 Students pose for the photo with a globe during a campaign to mark the World Earth Day in a middle school in Dexing, Jiangxi province April 19, 2011. If the environmental move...
11-04-18 Brazilians are world leaders in using biofuels for gasoline(汽油) . About a quarter of their automobile fuel consumption comes from sugarcane, which significantly reduces carbon dioxide emissions that otherwise would be emitted from using gasoline...
11-04-18 Bremerhaven/Geesthacht/Potsdam, 14 April 2011. The coastline in Arctic regions reacts to climate change with increased erosion and retreats by half a metre per year on average. This means substantial changes for Arctic ecosystems near the coast and...
11-04-11 The Antarctic Peninsula has warmed rapidly for the last half-century or more, and recent studies have shown that an adjacent(临近的) area, continental West Antarctica, has steadily warmed for at least 30 years, but scientists haven't been sure why...
11-03-25 The 2011 Arctic sea ice extent maximum that marks the beginning of the melt season appears to be tied for the lowest ever measured by satellites, say scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center. The CU-Boulde...