14-05-22 California's winter tule fog -- hated by drivers, but needed by fruit and nut trees -- has declined dramatically over the past three decades, raising a red flag for the state's multibillion dollar agricultural industry, according to researchers at U...

14-05-21 Many have assumed that warmer winters as a result of climate change would increase the growth of trees and shrubs（灌木） because the growing season would be longer. But shrubs achieve less yearly growth when cold winter temperatures are interrupted...

14-05-10 Two widely used neonicotinoids（新烟碱） -- a class of insecticide -- appear to significantly harm honey bee colonies over the winter, particularly during colder winters, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). The stud...

14-03-24 Indians ask their new chief whether the winter will be cold or mild. Since the young chief never learned the ways of his ancestors, he tells them to collect firewood, then he goes off and calls the National Weather Service. Will the winter be bad? h...

13-11-30 一项新的研究显示，居住在温暖房间里的人比起那些整个冬天都冻得瑟瑟发抖的人肥胖的可能性更小，他们的体重指数趋于较低水平。 Scientists fear rising energy bills may lead to an increase in obesity after discovering a link between poorly-heated homes and hi...

13-11-29 The decrease in snowfall observed in recent years in Canada's subarctic（亚北极的） regions has led to worrisome desiccation（干燥） of the regions' lakes. This is the conclusion arrived at by researchers from Universit Laval, Wilfrid Laurier Univer...

13-11-14 It's a foggy fall morning, and University of Washington researcher Susan Dickerson-Lange pokes her index finger into the damp soil beneath a canopy（遮盖） of second-growth conifers（松柏类） . The tree cover is dense here, and little light seeps in...

13-10-31 In the temperate zones, vegetation follows the change of the seasons. After a winter pause, plants put out new growth in spring. Research has now brought a new correlation to light: The colder the winter, the earlier native plants begin to grow agai...

13-09-16 One fine day in winter some ants were busy drying their store of corn, which had got rather damp during a long spell of rain. Presently up came a grasshopper and begged them to spare her a few grains, For, she said, I'm simply starving. The ants sto...

13-09-12 Biologists and physicists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, found out that not all of the Southern Hemisphere humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) migrate towards the equator（赤道） at the end of...