13-09-26 Using a particular type of titanium dioxide -- a common ingredient in cosmetics(化妆品) , food products, toothpaste and sunscreen -- could reduce the potential health risks associated with the widely used compound. The report on the substance, pro...
13-09-05 The amount of ozone created from aircraft pollution is highest from flights leaving and entering Australia and New Zealand, a new study has shown. The findings, which have been published today, Thursday 5 September, in IOP Publishing's journal Envir...
13-01-16 In addition to causing smoggy skies and chronic coughs, soot(煤烟,烟灰) -- or black carbon -- turns out to be the number two contributor to global warming. It's second only to carbon dioxide, according to a four-year assessment by an internationa...
11-10-13 The Baltic Sea emits more carbon dioxide than it can bind. Local variations have increased the exposure of the Bay of Bothnia. These are the results from a study of how carbon dioxide flows between the water of the Baltic Sea and the atmosphere, car...
10-11-24 A systematic study of phase changes in vanadium dioxide(二氧化钒) has solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for decades, according to researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Scientists have known that vanadi...
10-07-23 Much organically bound carbon is deposited on inland lake bottoms. A portion remains in the sediment(沉淀) , sometimes for thousands of years, while the rest is largely broken down to carbon dioxide and methane(甲烷) , which are released into th...
10-07-03 The Japanese government has launched a campaign encouraging people to go to bed and get up extra early in order to reduce household carbon dioxide emissions. 日本政府日前发起一项宣传活动,鼓励人们早睡早起,以减少家庭的二氧化碳排放量。 The Morning Ch...
10-06-18 Increasingly, the Earth's climate appears to be more connected than anyone would have imagined. El Nio, the weather pattern that originates in a patch(斑点,碎片) of the equatorial(赤道的) Pacific, can spawn(酿成,造成) heat waves and droughts...
09-12-26 NASA, the American agency which landed men on the moon, and Google, the go-to company of the early 21st Century, are trying to give the world the ability to monitor both the carbon dioxide pollution and the levels of forest destruction that contribu...
09-10-11 A new historical record of carbon dioxide levels suggests current political targets on climate may be playing with fire, scientists say. 科学家称,一个新的二氧化碳含量历史记录显示现行的气候政治目标可能是玩火。 Data came from samples brought up by th...