13-10-17 A plane carrying 49 passengers and crew that crashed in southern Laos hit bad weather as it came into land, officials in the South East Asian nation said. 一架载有49名乘客与机组人员的飞机遭遇恶劣天气，在老挝南部南部坠毁。 The Laos Airlines plane, fl...

13-10-09 Over 80% of the world's ice-free land is at risk of profound ecosystem transformation by 2100, a new study reveals. Essentially, we would be leaving the world as we know it, says Sebastian Ostberg of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research...

13-09-27 A foul-weather friend only seeks you out if they have a problem, need a shoulder to cry on, a ride to town or someone to watch their dog, but otherwise they act as if they don't even know you. Foul-weather friend（字面意思为坏天气朋友）只会在他们遇...

13-09-17 Is your cable television on the fritz（发生故障） ? One explanation, scientists suspect, may be the weather -- the weather in space, that is. MIT researchers are investigating the effects of space weather -- such as solar flares, geomagnetic storms...

13-08-21 Poor weather in Europe and the US has contributed to a fall in profits at Heineken, the world's third-largest brewer. 欧洲以及美国恶劣的天气造成喜力啤酒利润下降。 Heineken, whose brands include Sol and Strongbow cider, saw first-half profits fall 17...

13-08-14 Smartphones are a great way to check in on the latest weather predictions, but new research aims to use the batteries in those same smartphones to predict the weather. A group of smartphone app developers and weather experts created a way to use the...

13-08-09 A Night Being fond of the night side of nature, I was soon promoted to the post of night nurse, with every facility for indulging in my favorite pastime of owling. My colleague, a black-eyed widow, relieved me at dawn, we two taking care of the ward...

13-07-27 Recently, climate change, including global warming, has been a hot news item as many regions of the world have experienced increasingly intense weather patterns, such as powerful hurricanes and extended floods or droughts. Often the emphasis is on h...

13-07-14 Hi everybody. A few days ago, I unveiled a new national plan to confront the growing threat of a changing climate. Decades of carefully reviewed science tells us our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on the world we leave to...

13-07-08 Ocean currents have a big impact on weather and climate. Without the Gulf Stream, the climate of Northern and Western Europe would be cooler. Scientists at ETH Zurich now uncovered that also relatively small swirling motions in the ocean, so called...