Australian crews have refloated a huge Chinese coal carrier that ran around on the Great Barrier Reef earlier this month and leaked more than two tons of oil.

澳大利亚船员将这个月早些时候在大堡礁触礁的中国大型运煤船重新浮起。这艘煤船已泄漏了两吨多燃油。

youdao

Australian crews have begun pumping oil from a Chinese coal ship stuck on the Great Barrier Reef to minimize environmental damage from an oil leak.

澳大利亚工作人员开始从一艘在大堡礁搁浅的中国煤船上卸载燃油，以便使燃油泄漏对环境造成的污染降到最低。

youdao

It was found that the barrier diffusivity depends on the diameters of coal particles the kinds of coal and the thickness of ash.

研究还发现，不同的颗粒直径、不同的煤种以及不同的灰层厚度、煤的灰层扩散系数均不同。

youdao

The legislation would remove what had been seen as a barrier for drillers wanting to use coal mine water: the state's Clean Streams Law.

WSJ: Pa. pushes drillers to frack with coal mine water

And some additional, much less happy news from Australia, as Unesco and environmentalists warn that climate change and large-scale coal mining may lead to the wholesale destruction of the Great Barrier Reef.

BBC: In brief: Unearthing Australia's secret history