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...

13-07-05 Fossil fuel companies have been funding smear（诽谤，污点） campaigns that raise doubts about climate change, writes John Sauven in the latest issue of Index on Censorship magazine. Environmental campaigner Sauven argues: Some of the characters invo...

13-06-29 Predicted increases in temperature and drought in the coming century may make it more difficult for conifers（松柏类） such as ponderosa pine（杰克松） to regenerate after major forest fires on dry, low-elevation sites, in some cases leading to conv...

13-06-27 A new report on sea level rise recommends that the State of Maryland should plan for a rise in sea level of as much as 2 feet by 2050. Led by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, the report was prepared by a panel of scientif...

13-06-25 Most species at greatest risk from climate change are not currently conservation priorities, according to an International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) study that has introduced a pioneering method to assess the vulnerability of species t...

13-06-24 As temperatures go up, bison get smaller. Joseph Craine, research assistant professor in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University, examined how climate change during the next 50 years will affect grazing（放牧） animals such as bison and c...

13-06-21 The protected area network in Tanzania is playing a vital role in the survival of savannah（大草原） bird species as they move west in response to climate and environmental changes, according to new research led by the University of York. Using data...

13-06-06 The researchers have been tracking the evolution of Drosophila subobscura, a small fly that is very common all over Europe, since 1976. They are focusing on a specific type of genomic variability known as chromosomal inversion polymorphism（倒位多态...

13-06-05 Researchers at the University of Adelaide have found that a lake on an island off the coast of Queensland, Australia, has been relatively untouched by changes in climate for the past 7000 years, and has so far also resisted the impact of humans. Blu...

13-05-31 Leading world climate change experts have thrown cold water on the idea that planting trees can offset carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels. Professor Brendan Mackey of Griffith University Climate Change Response Program is the lead author of...