Its signs are subtle and slow: the earth dries; water levels fall; the rains do not come; and the land is gripped by drought. At its most basic, a drought occurs when more water is used than is replenished. It is a balance between supply and demand,

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国家地理-2008-09-13 小鲸鱼错认游艇为母

Animal Conservationists in Australia expressed concern on Tuesday that a lost humpback whale calf separated from its mother could die within days, unless it finds its own mother or another mother to adopt it. The calf believed to be one or two month

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国家地理-2008-09-15 狗狗天堂在美国

Transcript by myconsent (Your suggestion on improving this transcript is welcomed!) From the playful to the practical. To the cute, to the honored, dogs are everywhere in America. Today there are about 70 million dogs in United States alone, one for

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国家地理-2008-09-20 印度的双胞胎村

The remote village of Kodinji in southern India, population about 13,500, is home to more than 100 pairs of twins, and 90% of those were born within the last 18 years. No one quite knows why, and no published study explains the phenomenon. At the la

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国家地理-2008-09-22 Rosetta航天探测器

Transcript (by myconsent) The European Space Agencys deep space probe Rosetta transmitted high-resolution images of an asteroid millions of miles from Earth. Rosetta caught up with the Steins Asteroid Friday night in the asteroid belt between the or

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国家地理-2008-09-25 西班牙的蕃茄节

Thousands of people descended on the Spanish town of Bunol on Wednesday to take part in the Tomatina festival. The annual food fight draws visitors from around the world. They pelt each other with ripe fruit until they become soaked through with tom

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国家地理-2008-09-27 伦敦的骸骨展

Transcript--by myconsent(for reference only) Construction workers in London are currently busy with redevelopment activity across the city. But it often disturbs the graves of thousands of long-deceased Londoners buried deep beneath the modern city.

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国家地理-2008-09-29 凯撒里亚的海底博物馆

An underwater museum is open for visitors off the coast of Israel in the ancient town of Caesarea . The Port of Caesarea was commissioned by Herod the Great , King of Judaea, and the harbor quickly became the main political and economic artery of th

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国家地理-2008-10-02 人猴共处的新加坡

Transcript (by myconsent, for reference only) While some visitors to Singapore expect a high-tech city, there are also some parts of the island that still reflect how it used to look before urban development took over. In one of the main Central Nat

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国家地理-2008-10-04 北极陷入“死亡螺旋”

According to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center and NASA, Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its minimum for the year at nearly 1.7 million square miles. A chilling fact, considering that this is only about 10 % more than the

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国家地理-2008-05-29 Panda Sensed Earthquake 熊猫预感地震

Did the pandas in Chinas Wolong Reserve know that Mondays earthquake was coming before it hit? A British tourist watching the pandas as the quake struck offered a keen observation. They had been really lazy and just eaten a little bit of bamboo and,

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国家地理-2008-05-31 Brave Bear 北极熊觅食记

In Northern Canada, winter slowly loosens its grip, and a young polar bear is hungry. It sniffs a meal already in progress, and decides to play a dangerous game, a food snatch. His opponent is larger, older, and wont tolerate a rival. A second try,

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国家地理-2008-06-02 Pagan Tomb 世上最大的异教徒陵墓

The Valeri Mausoleum, the largest and most luxurious of 22 pagan tombs buried under St. Peter's Basilica [1] in Vatican City, was reopened on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. The mausoleum lies a few hundred feet away from the burial plac

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国家地理-2008-06-05 City of The Dead Thrives 亡者之城埃及

The City of the Dead is one of the largest graveyards in Egypt, home to thousands of tomb stones dating back as early as the 14th century. It was traditionally a burial ground for Arab conquerors and their relatives. From a distance, set against the

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国家地理-2008-06-07 Sinking England 下沉中的英格兰

All may seem calm along these beautiful stretches of British coastline.But there is a battle being fought on the beaches of Britain.Its a fight for survival against the mighty force of the North Sea. Erosion of this coastline has been going on for t

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国家地理-2008-06-09 Eruption Changing Galapagos 加拉帕戈斯群岛火山爆发

A volcano that started erupting on one of the Galapagos Islands last week may be changing the landscape of the island. According to the Associated Press, rangers and tour guides spotted lava flowing down the northeastern flank of the Cerro Azul Volc

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国家地理-2008-06-12 Lost Pyramind Found 发现新的金字塔

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered the bottom part of an unknown pyramid in the Sakkara area about 18 miles south of Cairo. NationalGeographic explorer-in-residence Dr. Zahi Hawass, the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council for Anti

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国家地理-2008-06-14 New View on Stonehenge Burials 巨石阵新解

The tantalizing mysteries of Stonehenge may have come one step closer toward being solved. New radiocarbon dates of human cremation burials there indicate that Stonehenge was used as a cemetery from its inception just after 3,000 BC until well after

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国家地理-2008-06-16 Quake Lake Blasted 唐家山堰塞湖排洪成功

Chinese soldiers used anti-tank weapons to blast away rocks and mud, holding back waters in an earthquake-formed lake that threatens more than 1 million people living downstream. Soldiers fired at rocks to dislodge enough debris to speed the drainag

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国家地理-2008-06-19 Child Labor 聚焦世界无童工日

The United Nations International Labor Organization marked the annual World Day Against Child Labor on Thursday to raise global awareness about the cycles of poverty that force millions of children into work, often denying them the chance to an educ

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