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中美气候变化合作令人期待

New hope for climate cooperation

奥巴马成为美国总统为中美应对气候变化的合作提供了契机。张海滨做出了分析与讨论。

Barack Obama’s presidency offers a unique chance for China and the United States to cooperate on environmental issues. Zhang Haibin explains why.

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体验苗家传统造纸

Miao papermaking

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本周的播客带我们体验传统苗家如何利用自然材料造纸。

This week's podcast explains how the Miao people use natural materials in their papermaking process.
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美国对马里亚纳海沟进行保护


Marianas area to be "protected sea"


据BBC报道，美国将加强对其太平洋岛屿的保护，并建成“世界最大的受保护海域”。这一海域内将禁止商业性的渔业以及钻井，范围达到包括马里亚纳海沟在内的50万平方公里海底海域。

The United States is to create what it calls "the largest area of protected sea in the world" around its Pacific island territories, the BBC reported. Commercial fishing and mining will be banned from the zone, which will span a total of 500,000 square kilometres of sea and sea floor, including the Marianas Trench.

"绿色"水泥可减少碳排量


"Green" cement "could cut CO2"


据英国《卫报》报道，英国工程师称发明了一种新型环保水泥，与普通水泥不同，该水泥在生产过程中可吸收大量二氧化碳。这种新型硅酸镁水泥的发明吸引了众多建筑公司和投资商的注意，它预计于五年内上市。

British engineers say they have developed a new kind of environmentally friendly cement that absorbs -- rather than emits -- large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) during production, the Guardian reported. The new magnesium silicates-based cement, which has attracted the attention of some construction companies and investors, could be on the market within five years.

美国海上风电场开始动工


US offshore wind farm advances


据《路透社》报道，美国在马赛诸塞州考德角建设的第一个海上风电场已按照计划开始动工。这一东北部州的环境保护部门于周二批准了一10亿美元的海下电力传送带建设的计划。

Plans to build the United States’ first offshore wind farm – off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts – have moved ahead, Reuters reported. The north-eastern state’s environmental protection department approved proposed undersea power-transmission cables for the US$1 billion project on Tuesday.

英国公用建筑温室排放高于肯尼亚


Public estate "emits more than Kenya"


据英国《卫报》引用一未经发表的能源效率调查报告说，根据对1.8万英格兰和威尔士的公用建筑的调查，这两个区域的公用建筑每年排出1,100万吨温室气体，比肯尼亚全国的温室排量还要高。

Public buildings in England and Wales emit 11 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, more than Kenya's entire output of the greenhouse gas, the Guardian reported, citing an unpublished energy efficiency audit of 18,000 buildings.

普京指低廉天然气时代即将终结


Cheap gas era "ending"


据BBC报道，世界主要天然气出口国----俄罗斯总理弗拉基米尔·普京说，开采天然气的价格正飞速上涨。普京说：“天然气和其他能源资源价格低廉的时代已经结束。”

The cost of extracting gas is rising sharply, the BBC reported Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin as telling ministers from the world's major gas-exporting countries. "The era of cheap energy resources, of cheap gas, is of course coming to an end," Putin said.

巴西环境分子面临遇害危险


Brazil's green activists risk death


据英国《卫报》报道一份天主教土地委员会的报告说，几百名巴西环保分子有遭暗杀之嫌。这份报告的发表时间正值智戈•曼蒂斯----一名巴西重要的保护热带雨林的环保分子被谋杀20年。

Hundreds of Brazil's environmental campaigners face the threat of assassination, the Guardian reported a new study as saying. The report, by the Catholic Land Commission (CPT), comes two decades after the murder of Chico Mendes, a prominent defender of the country's rain forests.

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