11-10-11 The National Development and Reform Commission has confirmed the government will take concrete actions to develop a low-carbon economy after it pledged to substantially reduce carbon intensity at last year's Copenhagen Conference. 国家发展与改革委员...

11-09-02 Understanding the flow and processing of carbon in the world's oceans, which cover 70 percent of Earth's surface, is central to understanding global climate cycles, with many questions remaining unanswered. Between 200 and 1,000 meters below the oce...

11-08-26 Globally, irrigation increases agricultural productivity by an amount roughly equivalent to the entire agricultural output of the U.S., according to a new University of Wisconsin-Madison study. That adds up to a sizeable impact on carbon uptake from...

11-08-16 Thousands of people gathered in the Australian capital, Canberra, to protest against a planned carbon tax aimed at curbing greenhouse emissions. 澳大利亚数千人聚集到首都堪培拉，联合抗议旨在削减温室气体排放的烟尘排放税。 The tax proposals have alread...

11-07-19 A new approach to growing graphene（石墨烯） greatly reduces problems that have plagued researchers in the past and clears a path to the crystalline form of graphite's use in sophisticated electronic devices of tomorrow. Findings of researchers at t...

11-07-15 Since the birth of the industrial revolution, ocean pH has dropped by 0.1 units. That might not sound like much until you realise that a 0.1 unit fall is a 30% increase in acidity. And, with predictions that ocean pH will continue plummeting（垂直落...

11-07-11 Qantas Airways claims the new carbon tax is likely to increase the cost of its operations by as much as 115m Australian dollars. 澳洲航空公司称，新的烟尘排放税将使公司的运营成本增加1.15亿澳元。 The new carbon tax is the latest in a series of issues...

11-07-11 How deep is the ocean's capacity to buffer（缓冲） against climate change? As one of the planet's largest single carbon absorbers, the ocean takes up roughly one-third of all human carbon emissions, reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide and its associ...

11-07-10 The Australian government has unveiled plans to impose a tax on carbon emissions for the worst polluters. 澳大利亚政府公布几项计划，将要对二氧化碳排放最严重的企业征税。 Prime Minister Julia Gillard said carbon dioxide emissions would be taxed at A$2...

11-07-01 Agroforestry（农林学） , the deliberate placement of trees into crop and livestock（牲畜） operations, can help capture substantial amounts of carbon on agricultural lands while providing production and conservation benefits. However, we currently l...