12-03-05 Scientists from PRBO Conservation Science and the Department of Fish and Game have completed an innovative study on the effects of climate change on bird species of greatest concern. This first-of-its-kind study prioritizes which species are most at...

12-02-29 The cassava plant could help African farmers cope with climate change, a scientific report says. 一项科学研究称，木薯可帮助非洲农民对付气候变化。 Cassava performed best compared to potato, maize, bean, banana, millet, and sorghum It's like the Rambo...

12-02-29 Coyotes（土狼） today are pint-sized compared to their Ice Age counterparts, finds a new fossil study. Between 11,500 and 10,000 years ago -- a mere blink of an eye in geologic（地质的） terms -- coyotes shrunk to their present size. The sudden shri...

12-02-11 The supposed 'consensus' on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years. 新的温度数据显示，地球在过去的15年间并无变暖。这一数据发布后，...

12-02-03 New research reveals how the arrival of the first plants 470 million years ago triggered a series of ice ages. Led by the Universities of Exeter and Oxford, the study is published in Nature Geoscience. The team set out to identify the effects that t...

12-01-13 Wandering albatrosses（信天翁） have altered their foraging（觅食） due to changes in wind fields in the southern hemisphere during the last decades. Since winds have increased in intensity and moved to the south, the flight speed of albatrosses inc...

12-01-11 Climate change is having a more profound effect on alpine（高山的） vegetation than at first anticipated, according to a study carried out by an international group of researchers and published in Nature Climate Change. The first ever pan-European s...

12-01-05 Predictions of the loss of animal and plant diversity around the world are common under models of future climate change. But a new study shows that because these climate models don't account for species competition and movement, they could grossly（...

12-01-05 A recent analysis led by ecologist Bethany Bradley at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggests that climate change predicted for the United States will boost demand for imported drought- and heat-tolerant landscaping plants from Africa and t...

11-12-13 Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, the minister of the environment has said. 加拿大环境部长宣布，加拿大将正式退出关于气候变化的京都议定书。 Peter Kent said the protocol does not represent a way forward for Canad...