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“低碳城市”的惊人之举

2010年3月9日

中国南昌一栋仅十余年历史的大酒店被拆除重建，李泰格认为这有悖当地政府提出低碳发展的承诺。

High-rise drama in Nanchang

March 09, 2010

The unnecessary demolition of a 10-year-old hotel in south-east China exposes a shallow commitment to low-carbon development, argues Li Taige.

普查数据揭示污染减排必须提速

2010年2月25日

中国官方公布的首次全国污染调查的结果令人担忧。然而马军表示，这份普查结果对环境恢复的正面意义值得肯定。

Dynamic data

February 25, 2010

The results of China’s first national pollution survey make for dispiriting reading. But, argues Ma Jun, their release could be the spark for environmental recovery.

三河三湖：远见成本的代价

2010年1月5日

周雷分析了中国西南江河治理不力的局面，显现出政策制定者缺乏远见和想象力。

Seeing the future in Yunnan

January 05, 2010

The inadequacy of efforts to address water pollution in south-west China exposes failures of imagination and foresight among policy-makers, argues Zhou Lei.

大咸海进一步缩小

据法新社援引欧洲空间局的资料报道，受灾咸海的东部耳垂形地带已经在短短三年内缩小了五分之四。这个中亚内海曾经是世界第四大内陆水系，现在却变成环境破坏的代名词。50年前为开发棉花灌溉项目，咸海的上游分支被引导至苏联。中亚海水位至那时起便开始持续下降。

Large Aral Sea shrinks further

The eastern lobe of the disaster-struck Aral Sea seems to have shrunk by four-fifths in just three years, according to the European Space Agency (ESA), Agence France-Presse reported. The central Asian sea – once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water – is now a byword for environmental devastation. It has been retreating for five decades, since rivers that fed it were diverted for Soviet cotton-irrigation projects.

制冷剂“加速全球暖化”

«自然»杂志援引一份荷兰研究指出，由于为保护地球臭氧层而设计的现代制冷剂在发展中国家的使用率将有所增加，它将加速全球变暖。这些发现将有助于环境学者及其它人士推动发展新的积极的氢氟碳化合物管制条例。

Refrigerants “add to global warming”

Because of their projected growth in developing nations, modern refrigerants designed to protect the earth’s ozone layer are set to become a major contributor to global warming, Nature reported, citing a Dutch study. The findings will encourage the efforts of environmentalists and others who have been pushing for aggressive new regulations to govern hydrofluorocarbon chemicals (HFCs).

欧盟推动碳收集行动

据路透社报道，欧盟正开始着手协助中国及印度发展碳捕捉及存储的相关技术。目前项目正处于咨询阶段，研究将资金和技术引入到中国及印度的方式。其结果对中国及印度会否承诺支持十二月哥本哈根的新气候政策具有重要意义.

EU makes carbon-capture moves

The European Union is taking the first steps in a process to help China and India develop technology to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) and store it underground, Reuters reported. The consultation process -- on how finance and technology should be delivered to China and later India -- could be critical in securing their commitment to a new global climate deal in Copenhagen in December.