The Great Pacific Garbage Patch may be disappearing, and not in a good way. New research presented at the biannual meeting of the American Chemical Society reveals that polystyrene actually can break down in seawater. Polystyrene is probably better k

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(43) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(八)月

More carbon dioxide emissions lead to more CO2 dissolving in the oceans, which turns the water acidic. Those sour seas slow the growth of corals. And it turns out acidic seawater also makes clownfish and damselfish suicidally bold and reckless, accor

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(七)月

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

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(32) / 评论(0) 分类 英语笔译

Over-use of groundwater may cause landslides. However, in costal areas it also brings seawater intrusion. Let's take a look at the problem with our reporter Zhang Wan. In a village in the costal area of Dalian, Liaoning Province, many villagers compl

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 英闻天下

A huge meteorite crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. Babies who were sound asleep in Asia heard the impact. The meteorite went through the ocean bottom. It created a hole deep in the Earth. All the seawater from the Atlantic started rushing into the hol

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(35) / 评论(0) 分类 英文短篇故事(纽约)

Water is so vital to us that it is easy to overlook that all but the smallest fraction of the water on Earth is poisonous to us, 水对我们太重要了,因此我们不容易注意到,地球上绝大部分的水对我们来说都是有毒的,

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