EXPLORATIONS - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning is a Silent Killer

EXPLORATIONS - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning is a Silent Killer That Causes Death and Injuries Throughout the World By Marilyn Christiano Broadcast: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is

TED演讲 :石油真正的代价(4)

And the Athabasca River drains downstream 阿萨帕斯卡尔河下游 to a range of Aboriginal communities. 即原住民聚集地 In Fort Chippewa, the 800 people there, 奇普怀恩堡有800位居民 are finding toxins in the food chain, 食物链中含

TED演讲 :石油真正的代价(3)

The oil produced from either method 藉由以上两种方式开采的原油 produces more greenhouse gas emissions than any other oil. 比以其他方式 开采的原油排放更多温室气体 This is one of the reasons why it's called 这正是它被

TED演讲：改变荒漠现状,扭转气候变化(2)

I took this picture in the Tihamah Desert while 25 millimeters -- that's an inch of rain -- was falling. 这张照片是我在提哈迈沙漠拍的下着25毫米（一英寸）的雨。 Think of it in terms of drums of water, each containing 200 lite

TED演讲：改变荒漠现状,扭转气候变化(9)

I believe I've shown you how we can work with nature at very low cost to reverse all this. 我相信我已经向你们展示了我们如何与大自然共处，用很低的成本来扭转这一切。 We are already doing so on about 15 million hectar

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How big is your carbon footprint? Neil: This is Real English from BBC Learning English. I'm Neil. Lily: 大家好，我是杨莉。 Neil: This is the programme in which we look at words and phrases that you may not find in your dictionary. Lily: 地道英语和大

Texas Scientists Work to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Air Pollution

By Greg Flakus Scientists in Texas are trying to find a way of reducing carbon dioxide air pollution by capturing the gas, compressing it and then putting it underground. This technique could also yie

VOA常速英语2007年-Britain Pledges Huge Carbon Emission Cuts by 20

By Tom Rivers London 19 November 2007 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is urging all nations to rise to the challenges of combatting global warming, which he compared to the challenge of recovery after World War II. For VOA, Tom Rivers in London r

TED演讲:我们为什么要排气(3)

At the same time, methanogens can use hydrogen and carbon dioxide produced by other bacteria to generate methane, 同时，产甲烷菌可以使用其他细菌产出的氢和二氧化碳以生成甲烷， which can reduce the total volume of gas by u

TED演讲:小国家的大想法--摒弃化石燃料(2)

Hydropower, geothermal, wind, solar, biomass. 水力，地热，风力，太阳能以及生物质。 Did you know that last year, for 299 days, 你们知道去年总共有299天， we did not use any fossil fuels in order to generate all our electric

TED演讲:石油真正的代价(7)

And we're replacing that with the largest industrial project in the history of the world, 将它转变成史上最大的工业项目， which is producing the most high-carbon greenhouse gas emitting oil in the world. 生产温室气体排放量最大的

TED演讲:石油真正的代价(6)

And the Athabasca River drains downstream to a range of Aboriginal communities. 阿萨帕斯卡尔河下游即原住民聚集地。 In Fort Chippewa, the 800 people there, 奇普怀恩堡有800位居民， are finding toxins in the food chain, 食物链

TED演讲:石油真正的代价(4)

Now, here you see-of course, as you go further on, 如图所示－当然，当你将视线拉远， these trucks become like a pixel. 这些卡车彷佛图中的小点。 Again, imagine those all back and forth there. 同样地，想象一下这片区域

TED演讲:树木之间如何交流(3)

Trees in real forests might also share information below ground. 在真正的森林中，树木可能还会在地下交流信息。 But this was really controversial, and some people thought I was crazy, 但这个想法其实挺有争议的，一些人

TED演讲:树木之间如何交流(4)

The first day of the experiment, we got out to our plot 实验的第一天，我们来到了实验地点， and a grizzly bear and her cub chased us off. 突然一头灰熊和她的熊宝宝出现，把我们赶跑了。 And I had no bear spray. But

TED演讲:树木之间如何交流(9)

Mother trees colonize their kin with bigger mycorrhizal networks. 母树通过更大的菌根网络来覆盖住自己孩子们所在的区域。 They send them more carbon below ground. 在地下，它们给孩子们会送去更多的碳。 They even

TED演讲:变得更健康的不能说的秘密(5)

Number one: we can fertilize our food. 第一：这能为我们的食物施肥。 Each one of us is pooping and peeing something that could fertilize half or maybe all of our food, depending on our diet. 我们每个人都产生能够肥沃我们一半

Carbon monoxide kills 12 in NE China mine

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Policies, tech draw vision of low-carbon growth

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China protests EU shipping carbon tax

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