12-02-23 Soaring temperatures and little rainfall have worsened the drought in the Ningxia Hui and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regions, as well as the provinces of Gansu, Guizhou and Hunan. 高温和少雨天气使宁夏回族自治区、内蒙古自治区,以及甘肃、贵州和湖南等省...
12-01-31 Average water and sewerage bills in England and Wales will rise by 5.7% from April to about 376 per household. 英格兰与威尔士今年四月的平均水费将上涨5.7%,达到每户376磅。 The average figure disguises(伪装) variations between water and sewerage fir...
12-01-30 Japan used seawater to cool nuclear fuel at the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant after the tsunami in March 2011 -- and that was probably the best action to take at the time, says Professor Alexandra Navrotsky of the University of California...
12-01-05 Invasive Burmese python hatchlings from the Florida Everglades can withstand exposure to salt water long enough to potentially expand their range through ocean and estuarine(河口的) environments, according to research in the latest issue of the Jo...
11-12-27 The observatory said there will be still no effective precipitation in the coming two days in provinces and municipalities along the lower and middle reaches of the Yangtze River and dry weather will continue to develop in spite of scattered drizzle...
11-12-27 The Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric project, has started to increase its water release to ease severe drought plaguing downstream rice-growing areas on Friday. 世界上最大水电工程三峡大坝上周五开始加大下泄流量,以缓解下游水稻耕种...
11-12-05 Bomb disposal experts in the German city of Koblenz have successfully defused two bombs from World War II found in the riverbed of the Rhine. 德国城市科布伦茨的拆弹专家成功拆除了两枚在莱茵河河床上发现的二战时期的炸弹。 They were discovered when wate...
11-11-23 Engineers at Virginia Polytechnic(工业学院) Institute and State University (VirginiaTech) have developed a robot that mimics the graceful motions of jellyfish(水母,海蜇) so precisely that it has been named Robojelly. Developed for the U.S. Offi...
11-11-23 Without the reservoirs and other water conservancy projects in southwest China, the drought would have happened earlier and resulted in more loss, Liu said at a press conference. 刘宁在记者招待会上说:如果我国西南部没有修建水库和其它水利工程,那么干...
11-11-23 Fewer than 7 percent of Beijing's golf courses use reclaimed water for irrigation, despite municipal guidelines that strongly suggest they should do so. 虽然北京市有明确的指导方针要求高尔夫球场利用再生水进行灌溉,但是按此要求做到的球场却不到7%。 在...