双语美文：水仙盛开 冬日安在？

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TED演讲：拥有大脑的真正原因(12)

So why is it that we move the particular ways we do? 那我们为什么用这种特定的模式移动呢？ Well let's think about what really happens. Maybe we don't all quite move the same way. 来想想真实情况可能是什么。假如我们并不

VOA慢速英语-Agriculture Report - Climate Change Meets American A

Scientists say in a new government report that global warming is already affecting U.S. water and land resources. Transcript of radio broadcast: 16 June 2008 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A government report says climate change

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2007年VOA标准英语-Leading Scientist Says Climate Change Increases

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 05 July 2007 A leading climate change scientist says the warming of the planet would have a devastating impact on the poor and the hungry. He urges the United Nations to make greater efforts to help the poor, the hungry, and ma

TED演讲:什么是疼痛(2)

But modulation networks are also activated that deliver endorphins and enkephalins, 不过调制网络也被唤醒，去传递安多芬和脑啡肽， chemicals released when you're in pain or during extreme exercise, creating the runner's high. 这些

VOA常速英语2007-White House Criticized for Editing Climate Chang

By Leta Hong Fincher Washington 26 October 2007 Bush administration officials admit that they heavily edited testimony on climate change delivered to Congress Tuesday by the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Senate Democrat

VOA常速英语2007年-UN Climate Change Body Urges Cut in Greenhouse

By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 26 November 2007 A top official of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says countries will have to make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst impact of rising global temperature

VOA常速英语2007年-Activists Warn Climate Change Will Reverse Asia

By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 19 November 2007 A new report warns that global warming could reverse decades of economic and social progress across Asia, home to two-thirds of the word's population. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the devel

Climate change might lead to water shortage in the Alps

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2007年VOA标准英语-Climate Expert Questions Gore's Global Warming

By Greg Flakus Fort Collins, Colorado 10 July 2007 This past weekend concerts took place around the world to focus attention on the problem of global warming, which former U.S. Vice President Al Gore says is the greatest single threat facing humankin

VOA常速英语2008年-Experts Say Climate Change Drives Migration in

By Nancy Palus Dakar 20 March 2008 The effects of climate change are increasingly driving people in sub-Saharan Africa to migrate in search of better living conditions, according to experts who gathered this week in the Senegalese capital, Dakar. Nan

VOA常速英语2008年-EU Agrees On Climate Change Legislation

By Lisa Bryant Paris 14 March 2008 European Union countries wrapped up a two-day summit in Brussels Friday agreeing to forge laws to meet climate change goals and create a new union that would group the European Union and Mediterranean countries outs

VOA常速英语2008年-Climate Change Issue Dominates EU Summit

By Lisa Bryant Paris 13 March 2008 Climate change and a proposed Mediterranean Union top the agenda of a two-day European Union summit opening Thursday in Brussels. Lisa Bryant has more from Paris about the issues involved. Leaders from the 27-member

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By Trish Anderton Bali, Indonesia 03 December 2007 Representatives of more than 180 nations gathered on the Indonesian island of Bali today to kick off a United Nations-sponsored conference on global climate change. The U.N. hopes the meeting will co

Obama "confident" to pass climate bill this year

WASHINGTON, June 29 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama met with a bipartisan（代表两党的） group of senators Tuesday in the White House on climate and clean energy bill, and said he's confident they can get something done this year.Urging

VOA标准英语2008年-Australian Climate Scientists Enlist Elephant S

Australian scientists are getting help from elephant seals to build a greater understanding of climate change. The marine mammals carry sensors that transmit data about ocean currents and sea ice. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports. Elephant seals Sci

VOA常速英语2007-Scientists Confronting Climate Change

By Paul Sisco Washington 18 October 2007 In today's Searching for Solutions report, Paul Sisco reports on what some scientists say can be done to reduce carbon emissions and cool off global warming. Many scientists believe that the problem of climate

Bonn climate talks see little progress

BONN, Germany, June 17 (Xinhua) -- The latest United Nations (UN) climate talks ended here on Friday with no surprise -- some technical issues saw some progress, as delegates usually said, while major disagreements remained. The two-week UN climate n

Sugarcane can cool climate, study finds

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