• 动作迟缓的蠕虫对气候变化反应迅速

    16-04-28 Evolution can go quickly when it has to - at least for small organisms. Researchers exposed a natural setting in Denmark to artificial climate change and discovered that soil just half a degree warmer caused the genome of small worms to change surpr...

  • 森林如何应对气候变化

    16-04-27 Drought could render the U.S. Northeasts mixed forests unsustainable after 2050 while Washingtons Cascade Mountains may require tropical and subtropical forest species, according to researchers using a new type of mathematical model at Washington St...

  • 古代的板块运动是冰河时期的诱因

    16-04-20 For hundreds of millions of years, Earths climate has remained on a fairly even keel, with some dramatic exceptions: Around 80 million years ago, the planets temperature plummeted, along with carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The Earth eventu...

  • 为不确定的气候买份保险

    16-03-27 In December, negotiators at the Paris climate meeting adopted insurance as an instrument to aid climate adaptation. Earlier in the year, the leaders of the G7 pledged to bring climate insurance to 400 million uninsured individuals in poor countries...

  • 奥巴马讲话 谈论美国的创新精神

    16-03-13 Hi, everybody. One of the things that makes America so strong is our spirit of innovation. Our drive to invent and harness new technologies to tackle our greatest challenges. It's how we won the race to invent the lightbulb and the Internet; it's wh...

  • 气候变化与进化缓慢导致鱼龙灭绝

    16-03-09 Ichthyosaurs - shark-like marine reptiles from the time of dinosaurs - were driven to extinction by intense climate change and their own failure to evolve quickly enough, according to new research by an international team of scientists. The study pr...

  • 气候变化对农业的影响可能被低估

    16-03-08 One of the most critical questions surrounding climate change is how it might affect the food supply for a growing global population. A new study by researchers from Brown and Tufts universities suggests that researchers have been overlooking how tw...

  • 2050年50万人因气候变化改变食品生产而死亡

    16-03-07 Climate change could kill more than 500000 adults in 2050 worldwide due to changes in diets and bodyweight from reduced crop productivity, according to new estimates published in The Lancet. The research is the strongest evidence yet that climate ch...

  • 龙卷风在北美将会更常见

    16-03-07 Most death and destruction inflicted by tornadoes in North America occurs during outbreaks--large-scale weather events that can last one to three days and span huge regions. The largest ever recorded happened in 2011. It spawned 363 tornadoes across...

  • 气候变化对公共卫生的影响

    16-03-02 Climate change is already having a noticeable impact on the environment and global health. Around the world extreme weather events, increased temperatures, drought, and rising sea levels are all adversely affecting our ability to grow food, access c...