Contributing to climate change efforts and biodiversity conservation have been the priority of the ongoing work for global beverage leader the Coca-Cola Co. in China, as it has operated more than 50 water management programs in the country.

Since 2007, Coca-Cola has been working with the WWF, UNDP and other partners to protect the freshwater resources of the Yangtze River, in which rare species such as pandas, snow leopards, white cranes, porpoises and Chinese dragonflies were bred. Coca-Cola’s actions over a decade have effectively contributed to the protection of more than 200, 000 hectares of high-ecological value are, as part of the efforts to conserve the biodiversity and communities of 2 million hectares of wetland ecosystems in the basin.

Coca-Cola China has also been working on responsible agriculture. Since 2012, together with the UNDP, Coca-Cola China has helped double the production of sugar cane in Chongzuo, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, by establishing an irrigation (灌溉) system for the first time, which uses wastewater byproducts to irrigate the fields.

“The water coming from the sugar processing facility needed to be treated, but once it’s treated it can be used,” Goltzman said. “You don’t have to withdraw from the ecosystem to water those crops.”

The Coca-Cola Company used a smart “golden triangle” model in all sustainability proposals. The innovative (创新) model gives full play to the advantages and expertise of governments, businesses, nongovernmental organizations and other sectors of society, to meet the increasingly serious environmental challenges, and protect water and biological diversity.

Zhang said, “We act in ways to create a more sustainable and better shared future. Sustainability remains core to what we do.”

Everyone is afraid of something. Maybe you’re afraid of spiders, or heights, or dogs, or the dark. And traditionally, we’ve thought that’s because you learned to be afraid. Probably because you had a bad experience with something at some point. But there’s a different idea out there that’s been getting more attention lately: the idea that fears aren’t just learned. they also can be inherited(遗传).

It sounds like a wild idea. But over the last fifty years, researchers have been studying just how much fears have to do with inheritance and genetics. And their results have been kind of surprising.

In this work, they’ve put a lot of effort into understanding one extreme kind of fear, called a phobia. To get a sense of how much genes influence fear, scientists have begun looking at identical twins. As identical twins have almost the same DNA, researchers can figure out how heritable (遗传的) a fear is by comparing how often specific phobias appear in identical twins as opposed to other brothers or sisters. Because even though twins often have lots of similar experiences, they probably don’t share the types of experiences that cause phobias — like getting bitten by a dog or falling out of a tree.

In 1998, a study of 659 pairs of identical and fraternal twins (双胞)in Australia looked at how many had a fear of blood. The study found that genetics accounted for 71 percent of the variation among those people, meaning genetic factors play a pretty big role in determining whether a person has some specific fear.

A 2016 study also found that fear of dental work was over 30 percent heritable. So, if you are afraid of going to the dentist, it really might not be your dentist’s fault. Overall, first — degree relatives of people with phobias are more likely to have similar phobias than people with no family history.

So, it’s pretty clear that phobias are heritable!