11-06-25 Dutch airline KLM plans to use recycled cooking oil as biofuel to power flights to and from France in a move aimed at cutting carbon emissions. 荷兰航空公司计划使用回收利用的地沟油作为生物燃料，为荷兰至法国的往返航班提供动力，以减少碳排放。 Starting...

11-04-28 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shown that the electronic properties of two layers of graphene（石墨烯） vary on the nanometer scale. The surprising new results reveal that not only does the difference i...

11-04-28 As China's economy continues to soar, its energy use and greenhouse gas emissions will keep on soaring as wellor so goes the conventional wisdom. A new analysis by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) now is challengin...

11-04-18 Brazilians are world leaders in using biofuels for gasoline（汽油） . About a quarter of their automobile fuel consumption comes from sugarcane, which significantly reduces carbon dioxide emissions that otherwise would be emitted from using gasoline...

11-03-04 As carbon dioxide levels have risen during the last 150 years, the density of pores（气孔） that allow plants to breathe has dwindled by 34 percent, restricting the amount of water vapor（水蒸气） the plants release to the atmosphere, report scienti...

11-02-17 Up to two-thirds of Earth's permafrost（永久冻土） likely will disappear by 2200 as a result of warming temperatures, unleashing vast quantities of carbon into the atmosphere, says a new study by the University of Colorado Boulder's Cooperative Inst...

11-01-13 Scientists are reporting the development of a new, ultra-light form of frozen smoke renowned as the world's lightest solid material with amazing strength and an incredibly large surface area. The new so-called multiwalled carbon nanotube (MCNT) aero...

11-01-10 Most college students in the United States do not grasp the scientific basis of the carbon cycle an essential skill in understanding the causes and consequences of climate change, according to research published in the January issue of BioScience. T...

11-01-07 An international team of scientists has released data indicating that greenhouse gas uptake（摄取，领会） by continents is less than previously thought because of methane emissions from freshwater areas. John Downing, an Iowa State University profes...

10-12-22 《中国日报》报道： The commission will be responsible for drafting national energy development plans, reviewing energy security and coordinating international cooperation, it said yesterday. 国务院昨天表示，国家能源委将负责拟订国家能源发展战略，审议...