Seagrass builds its leaves and roots using carbon, which it extracts from water through the process of photosynthesis – and it holds on to it, even after death. Dead plant material decomposes slowly on the ocean floor, and this means that the carbon stored within is eventually buried under t...
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 As reported by BBC News, the European Parliament(议会) has voted to ban single-use plastics across the board in an attempt 1.___(stop) the unending stream of plastic pollution 2.___(get) into the oceans. The bill still ...
Deep-sea mining targets polymetallic nodules – potato-sized rocks found over 4,000 metres below the ocean surface. Rich in minerals such as copper, cobalt, manganese, and nickel, these so-called “batteries in a rock” are the focus of various companies aiming to harvest them. Polymetallic n...
Neil It may be impossible to stop disasters from happening, but there are ways to limit the number of deaths. An earthquake in the middle of the ocean is less of a disaster than in a populated city, so one technological solution invo...
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Chinese political advisors on Thursday put their heads together to offer suggestions on the revision of the country's Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution. China's economic planner vows more efforts to reform China's economic planner has pledged more efforts to push forward structu...
BBC News. 自审判开始以来,前波黑塞族领袖拉多万·卡拉季奇(Radovan Karadzic)首次出现在海牙 南斯拉夫战争罪刑事法庭。当检控部门敦促法庭或者强迫卡拉季奇出席,或者继续进行缺 席审判时,他异常平静。卡拉季奇否认包括波斯尼亚战争中的种族大屠杀在内的所有指控。 他反复强调,要求更多的时间来准备自己的案子。Peter Bowes ...
Fossil fuel pollution is sending climate chaos off the charts. Sirens are blaring across all major indicators: Last year saw record heat, record sea levels, and record ocean surface temperatures. Glacierslikely lost more ice...
Other threats include human pollution, acidification from carbon dioxide and rising temperatures in Earth's atmosphere. Professor Roark says corals are important because they support many other forms of sea life. He says they also can show part of the ocean's ancient history. Corals have hard,...