Hurricane Irene has been lashing North Carolinas coast. High winds and rainfall were in sheets that windshield wipers can barely keep up with. Irene is maintaining category 1 winds of 85 miles an hour. Its creating storm surges in coastal towns. And

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So what about the other reactors? There's a reactor that's coming online now, they're starting to sell it. 换作反应堆呢?现在有一款即将完成的反应堆,它即将开始售卖。 It's a high-temperature gas reactor. It can't melt down

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster, our guest is Professor Rob Jackson, director of the Global Change Center at Duke University. He's with us to explain some of the language of ecology and climate change. RS: And we

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Chinese president to visit Austria, attend G20 summit Chinese President Hu Jintao will leave China on Sunday as he prepares to pay a state visit to Austria before attending the upcoming G20 summit in France. Earlier this week, President Hu spoke with

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 Hourly News 每小时新闻

Authorities in Beijing have now dropped the yellow alert for smog. The PM 2.5 index in the capital is now sitting at around 100. While still above the Chinese government's safety standard of 75, the PM 2.5 count is down significantly from the near on

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China and the U.S. have agreed to strengthen ties in the aviation sector. As CRI's Allie Johnson reports, the agreement has been made at a US-China Aviation Summit taking place in Washington. The three-day US-China Aviation Summit comes following the

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 世界各地新闻集锦

Drivers in the eastern United States may soon start paying for the pollution made by their motor vehicles. Nine eastern states and Washington, D.C. are launching a system of pricing the carbon dioxide produced from burning gasoline and diesel fuel. M

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The local government in the Indian capital has said that private vehicles with odd and even registration numbers will only be allowed to operate on alternate days to curb pollution. 印度首都新德里出台私家车单双号限行政策来控制污染

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Climate change and geoengineering 气候变化与地质工程学 Fears of a bright planet 地球发光,令人担心 Experiments designed to learn more about ways of geoengineering the climate should be allowed to proceed 为更好地利用工程学手

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BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Construction is to be suspended and use of official vehicles limited in cases where Beijing air quality plummets to extremely bad, under a new rule on curbing air pollution. The rule, to be enacted on Jan. 1, 2013, catego

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

LOS ANGELES, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Sugarcane(甘蔗) has the effect of cooling temperatures(温度) , thus playing role in stemming global warming, a new study has found. Sugarcane does so by reflecting sunlight back into space and by lowering the

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HONG KONG China is Volkswagens single-largest market, and the company vies with General Motors as the countrys biggest automaker. But Volkswagens diesel scandal is unlikely to have many repercussions in China. 香港中国是大众汽车(Volkswagen)的

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(178) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

WASHINGTON, June 25 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled the country's first national climate action plan on Tuesday afternoon, pledging to limit carbon emissions from American power plants. Delivering a speech at Georgetown University, O

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Sleeping next to a 200-foot icefall, walking amongst a colony of 6,000 emperor penguins, and standing at the lowest point on earth... this trip is certainly one for the bucket list. Would-be adventurers with cash to burn can now follow in the footste

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本期内容: Couldchipfathelpdirtyshippingcleanupitsact? Theglobalshippingindustryisasbigacontributortogreenhousegasemissionsasaviation, andtheheavyfueloilthatpowersitsgiantvesselsisexceptionallydirty-packedwithsoot, blackcarbonandsulphur.InSeptem

发表于:2019-02-20 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读

Beijing's municipal authorities will issue new regulations to improve air quality by the end of this year. The smoggy weather has affected a total area of 1.3 million square kilometers in China recently. The new regulations include higher standards f

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 英闻天下

Latest stats from the city's Environmental Protection Bureau show the number of days with high air quality reached 57 in the first four months of 2015, up eight days from a year earlier. During the period, the number of days with severe air pollution

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A FREIGHT train, its dozen cars loaded with coal covered in a light dusting of snow, snaked through the narrow valley, sometimes following the two-lane highway and sometimes crossing it. The valley was silent and snowy, and though it was two days int

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Climate-change talks 气候变化会谈 Wilted greenery 凋零的青葱 The UNs latest round of climate-change talks open in Durban. Even avoiding deadlock would be an achievement 联合国最新一轮气候变化会谈在德班开幕,这次会谈只

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Nowadays, we have many conveniences in our society which have been brought about through technology and science. However, these same advancements in technology and science have caused some very dangerous problems. These problems will not go away easi

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