2018年CRI Polar bears starve as Arctic sea ice melts

A new study has found that the Arctic's iconic polar bears are finding it harder to hunt for food due to melting sea ice caused by climate change, putting the species at a growing risk of extinction. Researchers from the United States Geological Surv

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin, this will just take a minute. Shakespeare once said: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. And that is true today as it was 400 years ago. What's different now, though, is th

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This title is the kind that gets attention, isn't it? I first heard about these two characters a few days ago. My three boys play an on-line game called Minecraft. It's actually quite fabulous. It is an unending arena, where you can discover and crea

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By David McAlary Washington 06 March 2006 The newest American mission to Mars is hurtling toward the red planet, due Friday to examine it in the sharpest detail yet. It will be the largest spacecraft

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By Jessica Berman Washington 04 May 2006 Members of teamsters union local 1150 protest at the United Technologies Corporation annual meeting over the issue of health care in New York As the wealthiest

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By David McAlary Washington 18 February 2007 The U.S. space agency NASA has launched five satellites - the most ever from one rocket - to locate the source of energy in Earth's magnetic field that triggers the colorful, dancing auroras over the north

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The Macondo well operated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico has now been capped with a star adornment that commemorates the 11 people killed when the rig operating on the water surface above the site exploded on April 20. Clean-up efforts continue, though,

VOA标准英语2012--Most Accurate Projection of Polar Ice Melt Produced to Date

Most Accurate Projection of Polar Ice Melt Produced to Date Measuring ice sheets is a tricky business. Over the last two decades, dozens of studies on ice loss have come up with conflicting results. Now, a global scientific team, reporting in the jou

Polar Explorer

BBC Learning English Weekender Polar Explorer Amber: Hello, I'm Amber, and youre listening to bbclearningenglish.com. In Weekender today, we listen to an interview with explorer, Rosie Stancer. In March, Rosie sets off on her latest expedition walki

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2006年VOA标准英语-Anticipation Grows as Hollywood Honors Osc

By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 14 February 2006 Hollywood's motion picture academy honored nominees for the Oscars Monday, as the countdown gets under way for the annual film awards. A luncheon gave n

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Paul Simon, Yo-Yo Ma share Polar Music Prize 2012

STOCKHOLM, May 8 (Xinhua) -- The 2012 Swedish Polar Music Prize was awarded to the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon and the Chinese American cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the prize committee said in a statement on Tuesday. For five decades, Paul Simon has b

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The dogs were barking wildly at two smallcreatures playing in the moonlight. Polar bear babies! cried Annie. One roly-poly cub leaped onto the other. Then theyboth rolled through the snow. Hi, little bears! Annie called. The cubs jumped up and shook

China's new polar icebreaker to launch in 2013

BEIJING, June 21 (Xinhua) -- China will launch a new icebreaker for use during an upcoming 2013 polar expedition, a senior oceanic official said on Tuesday. Both the new icebreaker and Xuelong (Snow Dragon), an icebreaker that operated in Antarctica,

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