13-05-31 Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are to blame for global warming since the 1970s and not carbon dioxide, according to a researcher from the University of Waterloo in a controversial new study published in the International Journal of Modern Physics B this...

13-05-20 Scientists say the recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term. 科学家称，近期全球变暖趋势的暂缓将造成短期内气温升高的降低。 Since 1998, there has been an unexplained standstill in the heating...

13-05-10 At any given time, cirrus clouds（卷云） -- the thin wisps of vapor that trail across the sky -- cover nearly one-third of the globe. These clouds coalesce（使联合） in the upper layers of the troposphere（对流层） , often more than 10 miles above t...

13-05-02 Our global networks have generated many benefits and new opportunities. However, they have also established highways for failure propagation（传播，繁殖） , which can ultimately result in human-made disasters. For example, today's quick spreading of...

13-03-01 A group of international ecological scientists led by the University of Adelaide have rejected a doomsday-like scenario of sudden, irreversible change to Earth's ecology. In a paper published February 28 in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolutio...

13-01-30 Coral reefs build their structures by both producing and accumulating calcium carbonate, and this is essential for the maintenance and continued vertical（垂直的） growth capacity of reefs. An international research team has discovered that the amou...

13-01-16 While the iconic Haleakalā silversword plant made a strong recovery from early 20th-century threats, it has now entered a period of substantial climate-related decline. New research published this week warns that global warming may have severe cons...

12-11-21 It appears that it's not just us Brits who are fascinated（着迷） with the UK weather. A group of researchers from Germany has taken to investigating the potential changes in extreme rainfall patterns across the UK as a result of future global warmi...

12-09-04 A new study, by scientists from the Universities of York, Glasgow and Leeds, involving analysis of fossil and geological records going back 540 million years, suggests that biodiversity on Earth generally increases as the planet warms. But the resea...

12-09-01 在斯德哥尔摩参加世界水大会的科学家们发布的一份报告称，未来40年全球人口可能要转成纯素食习惯才能避免食品短缺产生的灾难性影响。 Leading water scientists have issued one of the sternest warnings yet about global food supplies, saying that the world's po...