11-07-07 Spring is hailed as the season of rebirth, but if it comes too early, it can threaten the plants it is meant to welcome. A University of Alberta study shows that climate change over the past 70 years has pushed some of the province's native wildflow...

11-06-10 Parts of England are officially in a drought following the dry spring, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has said. 英国环境、食品和农村事务部表示，受春季干燥的影响，英格兰部分地区正面临干旱。 Environment Secretary Caroli...

11-03-29 One day, there was a blind man sitting on the steps of a building with a sign by his feet, that reads: I am blind, please help. A creative publicist was walking by the blind man and stopped to observe that the man only had a few coins in his hat. He...

11-03-29 Beautiful spring is here. The winter is gone. But the birds are back. The snow is gone. But the flowers are back. Old coats are gone. But new ones are here. Spring is a beautiful time. 春天就在这里。 冬天走了。 而且鸟儿回来。 雪融化了。 而且花儿回来...

11-03-25 I like the subtle fresh green budding from the branches of the tree -- the herald（先驱） of spring, ushering in（领进） the dawn... I like the subtle flow of cloud that makes the sky seem even more vast, azure（蔚蓝的） and immense... I like the su...

11-03-16 Every April I am beset by（困扰） the same concern-that spring might not occur this year. The landscape looks forsaken（被抛弃的） , with hills, sky and forest forming a single gray meld, like the wash an artist paints on a canvas（帆布） before the...

11-02-15 April Alicia Ostriker The optimists among us taking heart（振作，鼓起勇气） because it is spring skip along attending their meetings signing their e-mail petitions（请愿） marching with their satiric（讽刺的） signs singing their we shall overcome s...

10-09-27 Birds embarking on long distance migrations are more vulnerable to shifts in the climate than ones making shorter journeys, a study suggests. 研究显示，进行长距离迁徙的鸟类比短途迁徙的鸟类更容易受到气候变化所带来的伤害。 Swallows are among the speci...

10-04-05 Spring has begun, and so has Japan's obsession with cherry blossoms. 春天来了，日本各地的赏樱热潮也开始了。 Visitors take a close look at blooming Ookanzakura cherry blossoms at Shinjuku park in Tokyo March 18, 2010. The pale pink blossoms or sakura...

10-02-10 The recent trend towards earlier UK springs and summers has been accelerating, according to a study published today (9 February 2010) in the scientific journal Global Change Biology. The collaborative（合作的，协作的） study, involving scientists fr...