13-11-13 A fisherman cast his net into the sea, and when he drew it up again it contained nothing but a single sprat that begged to be put back into the water. I'm only a little fish now, it said, but I shall grow big one day, and then if you come and catch...

13-11-12 Banning the practice of throwing unmarketable（不能上市出售的） or over-quota fish back into the sea is just one of the measures needed to deliver sustainable fisheries according to new research from the University of East Anglia. Research carried o...

13-10-30 The high cliffs of Eastern Siberia -- which mainly consist of permafrost（永久冻土） -- continue to erode at an ever quickening pace. This is the conclusion which scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Rese...

13-09-22 In 643 AD, Emperor Taizong of Tang baulked（犹豫，阻止） from crossing the sea to a campaign against Koguryo. His general Xue Rengui thought of a stratagem（策略，计谋） to get the emperor across and allay his fear of seasickness. On a clear day, th...

13-09-17 A Stag. Blind of one eye, was grazing close to the sea-shore and kept his sound eye turned towards the land, so as to be able to perceive the approach of the hounds（猎犬） , while the blind eye he turned towards the sea, never suspecting that any d...

13-09-05 There was a certain merchant who had two children, a boy and a girl; they were both young, and could not walk. And two richly-laden ships of his sailed forth to sea with all his property on board, and just as he was expecting to win much money by th...

13-08-24 Sea ice decline and warming trends are changing the vegetation in nearby arctic coastal areas, according to two University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists. Uma Bhatt, an associate professor with UAF's Geophysical Institute, and Skip Walker, a profess...

13-08-23 Antarctic krill（南极虾） are usually less than 6 cm in length but their size belies the major role they play in sustaining much of the life in the Southern Ocean. They are the primary food source for many species of whales, seals, penguins and fish...

13-08-22 A new computer simulation conducted at the University of Bristol (UB) and University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine Atmospheric Science has revealed the epic, ocean-spanning journeys travelled by millimetre-sized coral larvae through the...

13-07-22 Global warming five million years ago may have caused parts of Antarctica's large ice sheets to melt and sea levels to rise by approximately 20 metres, scientists report today in the journal Nature Geoscience. The researchers, from Imperial College...