11-01-10 New research indicates the impact of rising CO2 levels in the Earth's atmosphere will cause unstoppable effects to the climate for at least the next 1000 years, causing researchers to estimate a collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet by the year 3...
11-01-06 Global food prices rose to a fresh high in December, according to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO). 联合国粮食与农业组织称,12月份全球食品价格达到新高。 Its Food Price Index went above the previous record of 2008 that saw prices spa...
10-12-10 Two heavyweights(重量级的) , the leaders of the IMF and the World Trade Organization, debated global economic government at the United Nations in Geneva. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the IMF and Pascal Lamy of the WTO, shared their views on iss...
10-11-23 Current state-of-the-art global climate models predict substantial(大量的,实质的) warming in response to increases in greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. The models, though, disagree widely in the magnitude of the warming we can expect. The...
10-11-22 Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions the main contributor to global warming show no sign of abating(减少,缓和) and may reach record levels in 2010, according to a study led by the University of Exeter (UK). The study, which also involved the Uni...
10-11-11 The global financial system and world economy are set to dominate the agenda at a two-day meeting of the G20 group of nations in South Korea. 正于韩国举办、为期两天的G20峰会将要讨论全球金融系统和世界经济问题。 Ahead of the meeting US President Barac...
10-10-27 One fifth of animal and plant species are under the threat of extinction, a global conservation study has warned. 一项全球环境保护研究警告,五分之一的动物和植物处于灭绝的边缘。 Some 13% of birds qualify for inclusion on the Red List Scientists who c...
10-10-21 The capture and storage of carbon dioxide in deep geologic(地质的) formations, a strategy for minimizing the impacts of greenhouse gases on global warming, may currently be technologically feasible(可行的) . But one key question that must be ans...
10-10-11 The soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including major portions of Australia, Africa and South America, have been drying up in the past decade, a group of researchers conclude in the first major study to ever examine evapotranspiration...
10-10-07 In recent decades documented biological changes in the far Northern Hemisphere have been attributed to global warming, changes from species extinctions to shifting geographic ranges. Such changes were expected because warming has been fastest in the...