In fact, around 500 million plastic straws are used every day in the US alone. If we didn't act now, there would be more plastic in the ocean than fish by 2050. Luckily, more and more people around the world have...
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125,000yearsandthattheatmosphericcarbonlevelsarethehighestinatleast2millionyears. Glaciersaremeltingfasterthananytimeinover2,000years,andoceanlevelsarerisingattwice theratesince2006. Atthecurrentpace,theresearchersexpectglobaltemperaturestorisebyatleast1.5℃, comparedtopre-industriallevels,withinthenext20years.The...
At New York's American Museum of natural History recently, you can have helped make a bone-by-bone reproduction of the museum's stegosaurus, a beast that lived 200 million years ago. As these examples show, museums are reaching out to new audiences, particularly the young, the poor, and ...
Despite the fact that longer-lasting materials will serve to damage the environment and its animals for longer, we can’t only measure the severity of a certain type of rubbish by its lifetime. For example, despite having a fairly short biodegrading span, more than 120 tons of cigarette-rel...
国家开放大学《人文英语 4》单元自测 1-8 参考答案 单元自测 1 一、选择填空,从 A 、B、C 三个选项中选出一个能填入空白处的最 佳选项。(每题 10 分 1、 –Do you think I can borrow your bike for a few hours? –___ A. Im sorry, but I really need it this afternoon. B. I am afrai...
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Drinks now contain 45 million fewer kilos of sugar as a result of manufacturers’ efforts to avoid the charge, according to Treasury figures. Since April drinks companies have been forced to pay between 18p and 24p for every litre of sugary drink they produce or import, depending on the ...
Imagine if we took all the animals that lived in the last 50 million years and randomly chose 10,000 individuals from 1,000 species to fossilise. Think about all the things that would be missed, or that seem too weird to be true. Like the giraffe, a yellow animal with brown patterns ...
While carbon dioxide gassing is also used in some factories, it is also a cruel practice that makes animals feel like they are suffocating before death. For the hens that survive this origin story, life is not that great, though for many, it is better than it was up until the 1990s,...