中国铅污染严重但治理进程缓慢，儿童成为最大受害者。美国经验，或许可以借鉴。
Slow progress on tackling lead pollution is an acute health threat to young children, but lessons can be learnt from bitter experiences in the US
两位气候问题专家就新成立的中美气候变化工作组给出了他们的建议。
Two climate experts give their recommendations to the new US-China climate change working group
作为国际社会的积极一员，中国有责任公开其在西非等地海外捕鱼作业的影响。
As an active member of the international community, China has a responsibility to be transparent about the impact of its overseas fishing fleets, particularly in West Africa
克莱夫·汉密尔顿在新作《地球之主》中指出，由于地球工程倡导者们热烈讨论对气候变化的“技术性处理”方式，各国政府可能会开始单方面地对地球系统进行干预。
As geoengineering advocates talk up the “technofix” approach to climate change, governments may start intervening unilaterally in earth’s systems, says Clive Hamilton
云南省委副书记仇和说，云南的江水流向了国外，要应对大旱，云南必须蓄水。此论引起很大争议。杨方义、周嘉鼎认为仇和的建议仅部分应对了工程性缺水，但忽视了云南旱灾中的生态型缺水和水质性缺水。
Calls by Yunnan officials to restrict water flows to other countries overlook the ecological and water quality factors behind south-west China’s drought
韩国进出口银行（KEXIM）发行了亚洲第一支“绿色债券”，这标志着投资者对中国及其邻国的污染和气候项目的兴趣日益增长。
The first Asian “green bond”, issued by South Korea’s KEXIM Bank, signals growing investor interest in pollution and climate projects in China and its neighbours
成功摘掉“雾都”帽子的伦敦，是许多中国人心目中治理空气知耻而后勇的典型。但六十年后，伦敦的空气难达标屡遭欧盟警告，这似乎也昭示着空气治理从来不是一劳永逸的事情，也提醒着中国治理之路的漫长。
For Beijingers, London’s history offers an example of a successful fight against air pollution. But on a trip to the UK capital, Chinese journalist Feng Jie found a city still battling its demons
一项新的分析认为，中国环境法庭只顾打“苍蝇”，不去打“老虎”。
China's environmental prosecutors may be busier suing small-time rule-breakers than assembling major cases against polluters, suggests a new analysis
台湾不应该修建更多的核电站，而是应该学习大陆过去十年中的经验，大力支持可再生能源的发展。
Instead of building more nuclear power plants, Taiwan should replicate its neighbour's successful support for the renewable sector over the past decade
在宣示了多年的绿色雄心之后，BP悄无声息地卖掉了所有可再生能源资产，专注于化石燃料业务。
After years of heralding its green credentials, BP has quietly been selling off its renewable energy investments and focusing solely on fossil fuels
专家称美国应对从中国进口的产品加强监管，狗粮及药物仍是重点领域。
America needs tougher regulation of products it imports from China, say experts, with dog food and pharmaceuticals remaining areas of concern
通过对藏羚羊基因组的研究，科学家揭开了这种可以在高海拔平原地区高速奔跑的濒危动物的奥秘。
Scientists have mapped the genome of China's much-loved but endangered Tibetan antelope, able to gallop across high-altitude plains at high speed
至年初官方严打危害食品安全犯罪起，已有900余人因生产销售假肉而被捕，其中更有甚者以老鼠肉冒充羊肉。
After more than 900 arrests over the selling of fake meat, including rat as mutton, officials face an uphill battle to change a fraudulent culture
印度农业遭遇危机，农民自杀事件接连发生，兰詹娜•帕迪的新作《遗孀》讲述了这一背景下妇女的艰难处境。
Written against the backdrop of continuing suicides among Indian farmers, a new book describes the impact of the country’s agricultural crisis on women
短评 in brief
如果人类不能消除对生态和地球系统的无知，世界将会怎样？卡斯帕•亨德森认为，弗雷德•古特尔的《物种的命运》一书对最坏的情形进行了令人惊心的概述。
The Fate of the Species by Fred Guterl is a bracing overview of the worst that can happen if humans do not overcome their ecological and Earth-systems illiteracy, writes Caspar Henderson.
