10-05-04 Trees and other plants help keep the planet cool, but rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are turning down this global air conditioner. According to a new study by researchers at the Carnegie Institution for Science, in some regions mo...
10-04-27 In dark, rich soils on every continent, microbes(细菌,微生物) dealing with the effects of climate change aren't accelerating(促进的,加速的) global warming the way scientists had predicted, a study by researchers at the University of California...
10-04-27 Residents of major world cities cite climate change as the most pressing global issue, except residents of large U.S. cities who list the economy as the bigger problem, according to a survey by HSBC Bank. 汇丰银行开展的一项调查显示,世界主要城市的居...
10-04-07 In an analysis of the past 1.2 million years, UC Santa Barbara geologist Lorraine Lisiecki discovered a pattern that connects the regular changes of the Earth's orbital(轨道的,眼窝的) cycle to changes in the Earth's climate. The finding is report...
10-04-04 Europe's best known landmarks - including the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and Rome's Colosseum - fell dark Saturday, following Sydney's Opera House and Beijing's Forbidden City in joining a global climate change protest, as lights were switched off across...
10-03-24 UN specialists are to look again at the contribution of meat production to climate change, after claims that an earlier report exaggerated the link. 联合国专家正准备重新调查肉类生产与气候变化之间的关系,因为有人宣称之前的报告夸大了二者之间的联系。 L...
10-03-17 The disappointing outcome of December's climate summit was largely down to arrogance on the part of rich countries, according to Lord Stern. 斯特恩爵士称,去年12月哥本哈根环境峰会令人失望的结局,其根本原因是某些富裕国家的傲慢所致。 Western nations f...
10-03-09 A team of scientists has discovered that the drastic(激烈的,猛烈的) decline in Arctic musk ox(麝牛) populations that began roughly 12,000 years ago was due to a warming climate rather than to human hunting. This is the first study to use ancien...
10-03-06 HEALTHCARE 医疗卫生 -- China will raise government subsidies on basic medical insurance for non-working urban residents and on the new type of rural cooperative medical care system to 120 yuan per person per year, up 50 percent over last year, and a...
10-03-01 Climate models project that the global average temperature will rise about 1C by the middle of the century, if we continue with business as usual and emit greenhouse gases(温室气体) as we have been. The global average, though, does not tell us any...