Report: Are Saturated Fats Really The Enemy? The 1980s were marked by a low fat, high carbohydrate diet. We snacked on microwave popcorn, cereal, and low fat turkey sandwiches. But that all changed in the 1990s when the low carb craze took a hold of...
Rare black penguin in the Antarctic islands The penguin, believed to be suffering from a condition known as melanism, was spotted on Fortuna Bay, a sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, about 860 miles off the Falklands. 这只被认为患有黑化症...
Malaria and Climate Change Bite the birds Malaria among birds is becoming more prevalent 鸟类中的疟疾感染越来越多 MOSQUITOES, which carry malaria parasites, like the warm and wet conditions that are expected to become more common with cli...
TOKYO Tokyos main fish market ushered in the new year with an auction on Saturday that resulted in the highest price paid here, and probably anywhere, for a tuna. 东京东京主要的水产市场新年迎来开门红，在周六的拍卖会上，一条...
China retakes renewables investment lead China has surged ahead of the US to regain its title as the worlds biggest investor in renewable energy, new figures showed on Monday. 周一的新数据显示，中国超越美国，在可再生能源领域再度...
The trouble with trees 自人类诞生之日起，树木就一直忠实地陪伴着我们。年复一年的生息轮回中，除了年轮的增长，我们似乎很难察觉树木所经历的改变。然而，我们的这些老朋友在全球气候急剧...
Electric Vehicles Going Out of Style? Not in China What is China seeing in electric vehicles that the rest of the world is missing? 中国看到了哪些被世界其他国家忽视的电动汽车的优点呢？ Chinese car companies are behaving like...
In Study, Past Decade Ranks Among Hottest New research suggests average global temperatures were higher in the past decade than over most of the previous 11,300 years, a finding that offers a long-term context for assessing modern-day climate change....
The Business Case For Healthier Food Options - Michelle Obama For years, America's childhood obesity crisis was viewed as an insurmountable problem, one that was too complicated and too entrenched to ever really solve. According to the conventional w...
Hawking: Humans Will Not Survive Another 1,000 Years Without Escaping Earth Stephen Hawking, who spent his career decoding the universe and even experienced weightlessness, is urging the continuation of space exploration for humanitys sake. 史蒂芬...
More government support, including subsidies and a favorable pricing mechanism, is needed for the country to use desalinated seawater to quench its thirst, a top industry expert said。 The lack of an effective pricing mechanism for desalinated water...
Obama to order curbs on carbon emissions in climate policy President Barack Obama has issued his most impassioned call in years to put global warming at the top of the international agenda, pledging to push for co-ordinated action by the worlds bigge...
今年春节，一些大城市传统烟花爆竹销量急剧下降，而电子鞭炮则销量翻番。连日来笼罩全国多个地区的雾霾提高了民众对空气污染的重视程度，也促使人们采用更环保的方式来举行各种新年...
Developing an Ecosystem of Innovation I recently joined the second annual Asia-Global Dialogue held by one of Hong Kongs leading think tanks, the Fung Global Institute. The two-day event brought together opinion leaders from business, academia and go...
2013 was a very bad year for South African rhinos with almost 1,000 animals killed for their horns. That death toll is 50 percent higher than in 2012 - despite a more concerted international fight against poaching and an international trade ban that...
