• 全球变暖导致红海珊瑚生长缓慢

    10-07-16 In a pioneering use of computed tomography (CT) scans, scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have discovered that carbon dioxide (CO2)-induced global warming is in the process of killing off a major coral species in the Red Sea....

  • 人为全球变暖始于史前猎人

    10-07-01 Even before the dawn of agriculture, people may have caused the planet to warm up, a new study suggests. Mammoths(猛犸象) used to roam modern-day Russia and North America, but are now extinctand there's evidence that around 15,000 years ago, early...

  • 科学家开始试验全球变暖对冻土层的影响

    10-06-27 Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are planning a large-scale, long-term ecosystem experiment to test the effects of global warming on the icy layers of arctic permafrost(永久冻土) . While ORNL researchers have...

  • 英国夏季开始时间提前

    10-05-07 The onset(开始,进攻) of summer in England has been advancing since the mid 1950s, research from a pair of University of Sheffield geographers(地理学者) has shown. The investigations, conducted by Amy Kirbyshire, a former undergraduate of the Un...

  • 监测冻土状况的新方法问世

    10-05-06 Among the worrisome(令人烦恼的,麻烦的) environmental effects of global warming is the thawing of Arctic permafrost(永久冻土) ---soil that normally remains at or below the freezing point for at least a two-year period and often much longer. Moni...

  • 专家:寒潮和全球变暖不矛盾

    10-01-16 Beijing had its coldest morning in almost 40 years and its biggest snowfall since 1951. Britain is suffering through its longest cold snap since 1981. And freezing weather is gripping the Deep South, including Florida's orange groves and beaches. 北...

  • 美宇航局和谷歌拟联手监测碳排放

    09-12-26 NASA, the American agency which landed men on the moon, and Google, the go-to company of the early 21st Century, are trying to give the world the ability to monitor both the carbon dioxide pollution and the levels of forest destruction that contribu...

  • 英一半民众认为气候变化非人为所致

    09-12-12 Almost half of Britons do not believe human behaviour is the main cause of global warming, a new poll showed Sunday, a day before world leaders begin crunch climate talks in Copenhagen. 上周日公布的一项最新民意调查显示,近一半的英国人认为人类行为并...

  • 预言:2010年将是史上最热年

    09-12-12 世界气象组织在哥本哈根气候峰会期间公布的一组数据表明,2000年至2009年可能是1850年以来最热的10年,即将过去的2009年可能在历史最热年份中排名第五,而2010年则可能成为史上最热年份。据气象专家预测,受自然天气形态和全球变暖的影响,2010年全球平均气温将普遍上...

  • 富裕国家应对保护亚马逊森林提供资金支持

    09-11-27 Nine nations in the Amazon region have called on rich countries to provide poorer nations with the funds to preserve forests. 亚马逊地区九个国家呼吁富裕国家向贫穷国家提供资金支持以保护森林。 Greenpeace activists staged protests in Manaus during the...