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AGRICULTURE REPORT - Jojoba: Not Your Usual Oilseed CropBy Mario Ritter Broadcast: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:00:00 UTC I'm Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Jojoba plants We have a

Pesticide Warning

03 警惕杀虫剂的危害 DATE=2-20-01 TITLE=AGRICULTURE REPORT - (1)Pesticide Warning BYLINE=George Grow (Start at 1'00

VOA慢速英语2009年-Agriculture Report - With Resistant Crops,

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Plant breeders and genetic engineers keep working to give crops the strength to resist threats like insects, diseases, droughts or floods. But before you can resist a threat, you need to understand

科学美国人60秒 SSS Pesticide Additive Could Be One Culprit in Bee Deaths

Pesticide Additive Could Be One Culprit in Bee Deaths 农药添加剂是蜜蜂死亡的一大诱因 Springtime is flower season. And that includes some 90 million almond trees in California. It's the largest pollination event in the U.S.and beekeeper

【趣谈英语】咖啡因的那些事-Caffeine Is A Natural Pesticide

Pre-Listening Vocabulary caffeine: a drug found in some plants, including coffee seeds and tea leaves pesticide: a substance that keeps insects or harmful materials away from a plant alert: awake and paying attention ward off: to keep away something

VOA常速英语2008年-Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Poses Threat to P

By Ruth Reader Washington, DC 13 February 2008 There is growing concern around the world over illnesses caused by new antibiotic-resistant bacteria, or so-called superbugs, and the decreasing effectiveness of antibiotics to treat infections. Earlier

2007年VOA标准英语-Disappearing Honeybees Concern Beekeepers and F

By Steve Mort Tampa, Florida 11 April 2007 Farmers in the United States say they are growing increasingly concerned about a mysterious shortage of honeybees. The U.S. government says it is investigating a dramatic decline in the bee population over

2007年VOA标准英语-Researchers Develop Mosquitoes Resistant to Mal

By Paul Sisco Washington 23 March 2007 U.S. scientists in the United States say they have moved a step closer toward success in the fight against malaria, by developing mosquitoes that are resistant to at least one form of the deadly illness. More o

VOA标准英语2012--Public Hearings on Popular Pesticide Spotlight Safety Concerns

Public Hearings on Popular Pesticide Spotlight Safety Concerns Every year, U.S. farmers apply more than 35 million kilograms of the pesticide atrazine on their fields of corn, sugarcane, sorghum and other crops. But a growing body of scientific evide

VOA标准英语2012--Drug-Resistant Malaria Threatens Effort to Control Disease

Drug-Resistant Malaria Threatens Effort to Control Disease The biggest fear is the resistance will spread across Southeast Asia and then spill over into Africa, where the vast majority of the 700,000 deaths a year [from malaria] occur. Historically,

VOA标准英语2012--MSF: Alarming Scope of Drug-Resistant TB

MSF: Alarming Scope of Drug-Resistant TB A medical aid group says the spread of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis is much greater than previously thought. Doctors Without Borders calls the situation alarming. MDR-TB is a form of tuberculosis that doe

VOA标准英语2013--Drug-Resistant TB Threatens Europe

Drug-Resistant TB Threatens Europe The Olallo Project in Central London was set up to help homeless people from Central and Eastern Europe get back on their feet by helping them find a place to live and get a job. The charity has evolved, though, to

VOA标准英语2013--EU Hopes Pesticide Ban Will Halt Bee Decline

EU Hopes Pesticide Ban Will Halt Bee Decline The targeted farm chemicals, which will be banned for two years starting this December 1, belong to a class of insecticides called neonicotinoids. They are a type of insect nerve agent that has been widely

美国国家公共电台 NPR To Repel Ticks, Try Spraying Your Clothes With A Pesticide That Mimics Mums

DAVID GREENE, HOST: We have been reporting on the rise of some really nasty diseases caused by tick bites - everything from Lyme disease to Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Well, now a new study is shedding light on an old technique to repel ticks that

科学美国人60秒 SSS Bacteria Can Be Resistant to Brand-New Antibiotics

Bacteria Can Be Resistant to Brand-New Antibiotics 谁在对抗最新的抗生素 Perhaps the chief poster child of antibiotic resistance is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. The bacterium is impervious to a suite of antibiotics,

Developing Wheat Resistant to Leaf Rust

59 美国科学家正试图培育抗叶锈病小麦 DATE=6-19-01 TITLE=AGRICULTURE REPORT - Developing Wheat Resistant to Leaf Rust BYLINE=George Grow (Start at 59

无人机将拿走1270亿美元的就业岗位?

Google and Amazon were quick to put drones to use delivering orders. 谷歌和亚马逊已经开始用无人机送货，反应神速。 But new research suggests delivery is just one small way drones are going to replace humans. The tiny airborne ves

VOA标准英语2010年-Effort to Stem Drug-Resistant Malaria

Malaria patients being treated at the hospital in Pailin, Cambodia. This spot on the Thai-Cambodian border is home to a form of malaria that keeps rendering one powerful drug after another useless (file photo) Health experts were alarmed to find a st

2020年无人机会抢走哪些工作

Google and Amazon were quick to put drones to use delivering orders. 谷歌和亚马逊已经开始用无人机送货，反应神速。 But new research suggests delivery is just one small way drones are going to replace humans. The tiny airborne ves

农业部长谈中国食品安全问题

Han Changfu said that food security is always a major issue in China, a country with a population of 1.3 billion people. He pledged that authorities will keep the zero-tolerance attitude towards food security issues and will spare no efforts to solve