• 英国建立查戈斯群岛海洋生物保护区

    10-04-03 The UK government has created the world's largest marine reserve around the Chagos Islands. 英国政府在查戈斯群岛附近建立起世界上最大的海洋生物保护区。 Conservationists say the area is a biodiversity hotspot The reserve would cover a 545,000-sq-km ar...

  • 飓风Gelane达到四级强度

    10-02-20 NASA satellites monitoring and studying Cyclone Gelane over the last several days have watched the storm become more powerful and more compact. Gelane is now a powerful category four cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Some regional warnings have b...

  • 澳大利亚警告日本:停止捕鲸

    10-02-19 Australia has set a deadline for Japan to stop whaling in the Southern Ocean by November this year, or face international legal action. 澳大利亚警告日本于今年11月之前停止在南极洋海域的捕鲸活动,否则日本将面临国际诉讼。 NZ and Australia have urged bo...

  • 海洋酸化威胁到人类食物供应

    09-12-14 Acidification of the oceans is a major threat to marine life and humanity's food supply, Hilary Benn is to warn as the UN climate summit resumes. 海洋酸化对海洋生物以及人类的食品供应是一项主要的威胁。 Acidification of the oceans affects marine life...

  • 新电脑生成图片显示火星上密集的溪谷网

    09-11-24 New research adds to the growing body of evidence suggesting the Red Planet once had an ocean. In a new study, scientists from Northern Illinois University and the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston used an innovative computer program to produ...

  • 水生动物也会影响洋流

    09-11-23 Understanding mixing in the ocean is of fundamental importance to modeling climate change or predicting the effects of an El Nio(厄尔尼诺海流) on our weather. Modern ocean models primarily incorporate the effects of winds and tides. However, they...

  • 海洋中有多少水?

    09-11-13 The calculation of variations(变更) in the sea level is relatively simple. It is by far more complicated to then determine the change in the water mass. A team of geodesists(测地学) and oceanographers(海洋学家) from the University of Bonn, as...

  • 欧盟探测土壤湿度和海水盐度的卫星即将发射

    09-10-30 A new European Earth observation satellite will be launched in the early hours of Monday morning (2 November 2009) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. The European Space Agency Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS - pronounced SMOSS)...

  • Seismic bangs 'block' whale calls 人类活动影响鲸鱼生存

    09-09-24 Scientists have turned up new evidence showing that ocean noise can affect the communication of whales. 科学家发现新证据显示深海噪音可以影响鲸的沟通。 Blue whales were hunted to the brink of extinction in the last century Studying blue whales off th...

  • Ocean coral 'offers pain therapy' 海洋珊瑚“提供疼痛新疗法”

    09-08-05 A compound harvested from soft coral off the coast of Taiwan could provide a new treatment for pain from intractable nerve damage, experts say. 专家称,台湾沿海附近的软珊瑚上提取的复合物可能会提供一个新的治疗方法来对付棘手的神经损伤带来的疼痛。 Keny...