The United Kingdom's plans for a nuclear power renaissance will face a challenge for skills and resources from countries such as China that are rapidly expanding their nuclear generation capacity, British researchers have warned.
About 12% of private wells sampled in the American state of New Jersey fail to meet drinking water standards, Environmental News Service reported a study as saying.
Powered by waste cooking fat, eight teams raced about 4,000 kilometres from London to Athens to promote cheap biofuels that do not harm the environment, Reuters reported.
Power plants in China will produce about 3.1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide this year, surpassing the total emissions of the United States electric power industry for the first time, according to a report by the Center for Global Development, a Washington-based think-tank.
美国冰雪数据中心说,北冰洋上的海冰量已达到了1979年以来的第二最低水平。该海冰量在去年9月达到了最低水平。但本年度的夏季还有三周时间,这就可能使今年打破去年的海冰低水平纪录。
Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is at its second lowest level since measurements began in 1979, the National Snow and Ice Data Centre has reported. The lowest level ever recorded was last September, but with three weeks of summer left, that record could be broken this year.
Rising incomes are having less effect on energy consumption, croplands and deforestation than one might expect, a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows.
Scrapping subsidies on fossil fuels could cut global greenhouse-gas emissions by 6% and benefit the world economy, Reuters reported a United Nations report as saying.
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