• 全球变暖使海平面迅速上升

    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...

  • The climate of New Zealand

    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!...

  • 澳洲拟捕杀野生骆驼抵御全球变暖

    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...

  • 让高中生亲自进行土壤科学探究

    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...

  • 物种进化速度能否超过气候变化?

    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...

  • 第42个世界地球日:珍惜地球资源

    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...

  • 甘蔗可降低周围环境气温

    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...

  • 北极海岸正逐渐被侵蚀

    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...

  • 南极半岛海域水温逐年上升

    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...

  • 北极海冰正在逐渐减少

    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...