13-09-22 A traveling salesman had to walk so much that his feet often hurt. His doctor told him that salt water was the best thing for them, so the salesman decided to go to the sea for his vacation that year. Since all of the hotels near the sea were expens...

13-09-18 In the long sprint（冲刺，短跑） to find new sources of clean, low-cost power, slow and steady might win the race -- the slow-moving water of currents and tides, that is. Just as wind turbines tap into the energy of flowing air to generate electrici...

13-09-17 A tunny-fish was chased by a dolphin and splashed through the water at a great rate, but the dolphin gradually gained upon him, and was just about to seize him when the force of his flight carried the tunny on to sandbank. In the heat of the chase t...

13-09-17 A crow was filled with envy on seeing the beautiful white plumage of a swan, and thought it was due to the water in which the swan constantly bathed and swam. So he left neighbourhood of the altars, where he got his living by picking up bits of the...

13-09-13 Our current pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which are projected to set the global mean temperature increase at around 3.5C above pre-industrial levels, will expose 668 million people worldwide to new or aggravated water scarcity. This is...

13-09-12 A huge water source has been discovered in the arid Turkana region of northern Kenya which could supply the country for 70 years, the government says. 肯尼亚政府称，北部图尔卡纳不毛之地发现巨量水资源，可供全国使用70年。 The discovery of two aquifers...

13-09-05 About a thousand or more years ago, there were in this country nothing but small kings, and one of them who lived on the Keuterberg was very fond of hunting. Once on a time when he was riding forth from his castle with his huntsmen, three girls were...

13-09-04 Once every 30 years or so, or roughly one Saturnian year, a monster storm rips across the northern hemisphere of the ringed planet. In 2010, the most recent and only the sixth giant storm on Saturn observed by humans began stirring. It quickly grew...

13-09-04 A disbanded soldier had nothing to live on, and did not know how to get on. So he went out into the forest and when he had walked for a short time, he met a little man who was, however, the Devil. The little man said to him, What ails you, you seem...

13-08-29 In the latest advance in efforts to find an inexpensive way to make hydrogen from ordinary water -- one of the keys to the much-discussed hydrogen economy -- scientists are reporting that powder from high-grade charcoal and other forms of carbon can...