Climate change has been a hot topic nowadays. There is little doubt
Although I
A recent study shows that the world's coral reefs have been showing strong bleaching(漂白) due to global warming.
In the 1980s beaching
Bleaching is caused when warm water breaks down the algae (海藻) inside the refs. They provide food for the corals and keep them
Coral reefs,
China's national observatory on Monday issued a yellow alert for sandstorms in the northern part of the country. “
Some regions in Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shaanxi and Shanxi were hit by strong sandstorms. The capital Beijing was enveloped in yellow dust
This wave of sandstorms is a result of the combined
The oceans can absorb 93 per cent of the heat trapped by the greenhouse gases which humans release into the atmosphere. And the other 7 per cent
“If the ocean wasn’t absorbing as much heat, the surface of the land would heat up much
However, the ocean itself, as Discover Magazine noted, is heating up 40 per cent faster on average than the United Nations
Threatened by Arctic changes
Climate change may wipe out polar bears by the end of this century,
According to Science Daily, the Arctic, the only natural habitat for polar bears,
Scientists made this
On March 28, 2020, millions of people around the world turned their lights off for “Earth Hour”,
Initially launched as a way of making people aware of climate change in Sydney in 2007, Earth Hour
In Singapore that meant special on-line performances. Australia held a similar live-stream of performances by bands, comics, and others. In other places, people were encouraged to upload videos or photos
With the climate
“Climate emergency” was picked by Oxford Dictionaries as the word of the year for 2019 after
Defined as “a situation
The dictionary’s word of the year is chosen