11-03-04 As carbon dioxide levels have risen during the last 150 years, the density of pores（气孔） that allow plants to breathe has dwindled by 34 percent, restricting the amount of water vapor（水蒸气） the plants release to the atmosphere, report scienti...

11-03-02 Pioneering technology by scientists at Queen's University Belfast, which is transforming the lives of millions of people in Asia, is now being used to create safer drinking water in the United States. The award-winning system Subterranean Arsenic Re...

11-02-25 Rapidly rising acidic water in the abandoned gold mines under Johannesburg in South Africa could leak out early next year, the water ministry warns. 南非水利部发出警告，约翰尼斯堡地下废弃金矿中酸性水水位正快速上涨，可能会在明年渗漏出来。 Its report...

11-02-24 Disasters such as floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes often result in the spread of diseases like gastroenteritis（肠胃炎） , giardiasis（贾第虫病） and even cholera（霍乱） because of an immediate shortage of clean drinking water. Now, chemistry rese...

11-02-23 New nanomaterials research from the University at Buffalo could lead to new solutions for an age-old public health problem: how to separate bacteria from drinking water. To the naked eye, both water molecules and germs are invisible -- objects so ti...

11-02-18 Let algae（海藻） do the dirty work. Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are developing biodiesel（生物柴油） from microalgae grown in wastewater. The project is doubly green because algae consume nitrates and phosphates and reduce bact...

11-02-15 Bone Fires Mark Jarman The manikin（侏儒，时装模特） 's head is filled with water so When the bonfire（篝火，营火） brings it to a boil It explodes and shoots up into the air Not enough water to put out the fire Which will burn on, consuming the man...

11-02-15 filter feeders 滤食动物 spill zone 漏油区 dead zone 死亡区 oil spill/leak 漏油 Deepwater Horizon oil rig 深海地平线钻井平台 last-ditch effort 最后的努力 top kill 灭顶法（通过泵将大量高密度液体注入输油管，抑制原油上涌，再用水泥封死漏油点。） containm...

11-01-27 Hotter summers may not be as catastrophic for the Greenland ice sheet as previously feared and may actually slow down the flow of glaciers, according to new research. A letter published in Nature on 27 January explains how increased melting in warme...

11-01-24 Tens of thousands of Russians jumped into holes cut in ice on Monday night and Tuesday morning on the holiday of the Epiphany, when Russian Orthodox believers take part in a baptism ceremony. 为庆祝主显节，数万名俄罗斯东正教信徒参加了冰水洗礼仪式，...