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By Caty Weaver Broadcast: August 8, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Environment Report. A new study shows an eighty percent decrease of hard coral in the Caribbean Sea over the pa

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(251) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2003(下)-环境与健康

Youre going to see some beautiful coral out at the reef, Melanie said, as they boarded a glass-bottom boat later that morning. They had driven into Key West after breakfast and were taking their seats on the upper deck of a large white boat called th

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Idiom: Make or break ( something critical ) Hit the book: Marine Organism Coral polyps Calcium Limestone Attach to Weird Coral reef

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The waves of these azure seas hide an abundant treasure. Below the waves, coral reefs provide a habitat for teeming life, a life with a kaleidoscope of color. In oceans around the world, clear and well-circulating waters encourage corals to anchor a

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You may think you are gazing upon a sleepy coral reef in the Caribbean Sea, and of course you are. But hiding in plain sight, is a riving teeming hotbed of erotica , that makes a Hollywood hot up party seem like a trip to the dentist. This is a coral

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JUDY WOODRUFF: The Great Barrier Reef along the coast of Australia is considered one of the greatest natural wonders of the world. It actually consists of more than 2,900 smaller reefs and 900 islands and countless species of fish. But its health and

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By Rosanne Skirble Coral reefs are home to the greatest diversity of plant and animal life found in any habitat, anywhere on the earth. But, while they are found in 101 countries and territories, the

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Human Waste Killing Caribbean Coral In the first documented case of a human pathogen infecting a marine species, U.S. scientists say a bacterium in untreated human sewage is killing coral along the Florida coast and in the Caribbean Sea. The finding

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By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 23 April 2007 Scientists have discovered that an earthquake two years ago in Indonesia lifted hundreds of kilometers of sea floor out of the water, causing the largest death of coral reefs ever recorded. As Chad Bouchard rep

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A MARTINEZ, HOST: There are few places on Earth where the impact of climate change is more noticeable than along the Great Barrier Reef. It's the planet's largest living organism that now has become the world's largest dying organism. In the past 18

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The waves of these azure seas hide an abundant treasure. Below the waves, coral reefs provide a habitat for teeming life, a life with a kaleidoscope of color. In oceans around the world, clear and well-circulating waters encourage corals to anchor an

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Like these sea fans, the last frontier of life on the reef. The divers reach their target-- a massive ridge, 190 feet down. Here, the air they are breathing is under pressure, squeezed down so that there's more gas in every lungful. They have to hope

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The reef was left high and dry, exposed to air and harsh sun. A trillion tiny creatures died in their own homes. For the coral, it was an apocalypse. When the ice age ended, the sea came back and submerged the dead reef. But what brought it back to l

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The pearl luggers then turned their attention to something else, a much bigger target. The reef has always provided a great haven for large animals, like turtles who nest on the coral piece. Whole populations of turtles were brought to the verge of e

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One of the early methods to getting rid of a starfish was to cut them in half, then killing them with a knife, but starfish has this amazing property when they regenerate. Far from killing them, cutting these animals in half actually creates two of t

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It's an astounding mechanism, but it looks like it's being overwhelmed. Recently, the coral has been telling us that its had enough. Because when it overheats, it self-destructs, expelling the algae that live with them. They turn deathly pale, a proc

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As a polyp grows, it puts up a wall of limestone around itself. And then it multiplies. Each polyp can produce thousands of offspring, which all work together to build a living fortress-- a coral reef. After just a few years, a single piece of coral

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Inside the flesh of these tiny animals are microscopic plants called algae, but these aren't parasites. None of this would be here without them. Wachenfeld: When the algae photosynthesize, they take energy from sunlight and carbon dioxide, then make

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Todd: So, Rebecca, in Australia you have the Great Barrier Reef. Now have you been to the Great Barrier Reef? Rebecca: Yes, I have once, probably about two years ago. There's the main part of the Great Barrier Reef and then there's a little island, a

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Todd: So, Rebecca, in Australia you have the Great Barrier Reef. Now have you been to the Great Barrier Reef? Rebecca: Yes, I have once, probably about two years ago. There's the main part of the Great Barrier Reef and then there's a little island, a

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学英语单词
Aberedw
aeriel
Ambrak
anterior transverse process
authority of legitimacy
balladed
Barahona, Prov.de
be quick off the mark
Benzothiepins
beyong contemplation
bodmer
Camelina sylvestris
cast oneself on someone's mercy
celiac infantilism
chemically stabilized earth lining
chemosterilant
compedency
counting unit B-2 type
Dendrochilum
deype
digeratis
Ebro
economic panic
edmondo
Electroporesis
epharmonic
export-led recovery
F. D. P.
fear, uncertainty, and doubt
federal coordinating officer
fibrinoscopy
flight engineer certificate
floriated
gakkais
gas content of oil
gas-tight shielded enclosure
gelsemium sempervirenss
gernet
grand union can.
grucci
have a rat in the upper storey
Heller's test
human scale
hymenolepis disease
induceth
industrial sewerage
inosilicate
intertropica stomatitis
ketoglutaric acid
kitchen-physic
laminae circularis
left-hand subtree
line printing
lip grain
Lords Commissioners of Justiciary
married population
McManus Seamount
measurement of remnant magnetic torques
minor class field
monumentum aere perennius
multiple filament ion source
Nabolo
not worth a bean
ordosite
original description
overall differential protection
paretically
pass partition(plate)
pectoral glands
person-centered
plauditss
Pleione scopulorum
preframe
prohibition of opium
resident-centered
ring-opening copolymerization
roleless
scandalisation
shortest remaining time
simultaneous radiation grafting
single end snap gauge
sleeve surface milling cutter with coarse teeth
Sordoginskiy Khrebet
spreading gain
stacking filters
synthetics from coal
teeb
Terry stop
tetraodontidaes
thermal radiation law
thumbs-downs
trilete aperture
uniformist
vantine
Virginia Tech
waive sth aside
waste materials
water-based paint
whittle ... down
with a loose rein
xiphoid processes
zedler