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Burning coal for energy adds planet-warming carbon dioxide, or CO2, to Earths atmosphere. As the planet heats up, experts warn that simply cutting greenhouse gas emissions will not be enough to avoid possibly disastrous levels of global warming. CO2

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Chapter Three The Wild Forest For a long time now, the Mole had wanted to meet the Badger. The Badger lived in the Wild Forest. Badger seemed to be a very important animal. However, not many animals got the chance to talk to him. But whenever Mole a

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Each year, millions of people visit the 4,570-meter-high Baishui Glacier in southern China. Scientists say it is one of the worlds fastest-melting glaciers. The huge body of ice is in the southeastern edge of a Central Asian region called the Third P

VOA标准英语2009年-Conservation Groups Say Forest Carbon Mark

By Daniel Schearf Bangkok 29 September 2009 Conservation groups say creating a global market for trading carbon credits from uncut forests is critical to fighting climate change and should be part of a United Nations-backed agreement being whittled

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Climate change may be partly to blame for the massive die-off of pine trees in the western U.S. But it works the other way, too: forest die-offs can alter the global climate. I like thinking of this as a parallel to something like El Nino. Abigail Sw

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: In Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, the native forest birds are in danger. The island has lost more than half of those native species, and it could be an early warning for the other Hawaiian Islands. Gloria Hillard reports. GLORIA

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Severe Drought, Wildfires Threaten Water Resources This is Valles Caldera. Actually, it's the giant mouth of a dormant super volcano that last erupted 40,000 years ago. In the millennia since then, the terrain developed high-elevation forests, of abu

VOA标准英语2012--Tree Deaths Linked to Climate Change

Tree Deaths Linked to Climate Change Stanford University graduate student William Anderegg has seen this forest die-off firsthand. His doctoral thesis documents the impact of drought on trembling aspen, the most common tree in North America. These ar

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Endangered Primate Offers Clues to Climate Change Scientists are studying a rare African monkey thats endangered both from climate change and humans. They hope the primates past can give clues to the future effects of rising temperatures. Its called

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A discovery of a mummified forest that's between two and 10 million years old is giving scientists a new window on climate change. Joel Barker, a research scientist at the Byrd Polar Research Center at the Ohio State University, discovered the mummif

VOA标准英语2012--Trees Stand Tall Against Climate Change

Trees Stand Tall Against Climate Change The next U.N. Climate Change Conference gets underway November 26 in Doha, Qatar. Once again, negotiators will try to reach a broad agreement on dealing with rising global temperatures. Deforestation is expecte

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Todd: OK, Norm, we're going to talk about colors. Norm: Mm-hm. Todd: OK. What is blue? Norm: Well, the sky is blue. Todd: OK. And what is green? Norm: Green? My green canoe. Todd: Your green canoe. Norm: Yes! Todd: Really! OK. That's cool! What is re

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Todd: OK, Norm, we're going to talk about colors. Norm: Mm-hm. Todd: OK. What is blue? Norm: Well, the sky is blue. Todd: OK. And what is green? Norm: Green? My green canoe. Todd: Your green canoe. Norm: Yes! Todd: Really! OK. That's cool! What is re

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Snow-whiteⅠ Once there was a Queen. She was sitting at the window. There was snow outside in the garden--snow on the hill and in the lane, snow on the huts and on the trees: all things were white with snow. She had some cloth in her hand and a need

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VOA标准英语2009年-Governments See Dollars in Re-Grown Forest

By Luke Hunt Bangkok 05 November 2009 FAO says most countries in Europe and North America have reversed centuries of deforestation As international attention shifts to Copenhagen and the coming United Nations conference on climate change, reforestat