13-08-05 Climate change is affecting the spread of infectious diseases worldwide, according to an international team of leading disease ecologists, with serious impacts to human health and biodiversity conservation. Writing in the journal Science, they propo...

13-08-01 As the world starts feeling the effects of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and consequent global temperature rise, researchers are looking for a Plan B to mitigate（减轻，缓和） climate change. A group of German scientists has now come up with...

13-07-27 Recently, climate change, including global warming, has been a hot news item as many regions of the world have experienced increasingly intense weather patterns, such as powerful hurricanes and extended floods or droughts. Often the emphasis is on h...

13-07-22 Almost 100 million euros has been spent so far on conservation efforts for the last 250 remaining Iberian lynxes in the wild. But the charismatic（超凡魅力的） species is likely to go extinct within 50 years because the current management plans do n...

13-07-19 Evaporation is so common that everybody thinks it's a well understood phenomenon. Appearances can be, however, deceptive（迷惑的） . Recently, a new, earlier not predicted mechanism of evaporation was discovered. Experiments and simulations performe...

13-07-17 The best way to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change is through the use of market forces, according to a new study. Researchers who monitored the effectiveness of the European Climate Exchange (ECX) -- the world's biggest carbon trading...

13-07-14 Hi everybody. A few days ago, I unveiled a new national plan to confront the growing threat of a changing climate. Decades of carefully reviewed science tells us our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on the world we leave to...

13-07-13 More than two million deaths occur worldwide each year as a direct result of human-caused outdoor air pollution, a new study has found. In addition, while it has been suggested that a changing climate can exacerbate（加剧，恶化） the effects of air...

13-07-11 Many vertebrate species would have to evolve about 10,000 times faster than they have in the past to adapt to the rapid climate change expected in the next 100 years, a study led by a University of Arizona ecologist has found. Scientists analyzed ho...

13-07-10 Wildfires produce a witch's brew of carbon-containing particles, as anyone downwind of a forest fire can attest（证明） . A range of fine carbonaceous（含碳的） particles rising high into the air significantly degrade air quality, damaging human and...