英语听力：自然百科 智利大地震

Little Emilia may not know it, but she played a role in the fateful circumstances that saved her family and relatives from serious injury and possibly much worse. It was her baptism that brought the family together in this picturesque region of Chile

英语听力：自然百科 博茨瓦纳

Botswana lies in the arid（不毛的，贫瘠的） basins of southern Africa, much of it within the Kalahari（喀拉哈里沙漠） Desert. But in the north, there is an immense oasis（绿洲） called the Okavango Delta. Created by the floodwate

英语听力：自然百科 马里：独特的成人礼

In the Dogon village of Komokan in Mali, preparations are underway for a rare event, the Village Dama. Damas can be held only after a good harvest, and in this environment, that doesnt happen very often. The Dama is a mask festival that honors deceas

英语听力：自然百科 埃及文物归还原主

A stolen ancient Egyptian sarcophagus is returning home. The sarcophagus nearly three thousand years old was seized by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE during the routine shipment inspection at the Miami international airport in 2008.

英语听力：自然百科 Indian Hot Spot

Nature reports results from GRACE, a satellite machine designed to use gravity measurement to monitor the world's water resources. GRACE is the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment and it's a two-satellite machine. These two satellites are followi

英语听力：自然百科 来自远古宇宙的光

When massive stars explode, they can produce gamma-ray bursts. The burst, reported in two papers in Nature, is the earliest descriptive event seen so far in our universe. When I received the text message about the gamma-ray burst, it came ultimately

英语听力：自然百科 美国大陆最南端：西屿

Althoughit has become a tourist town, the islands in a place where things are donejust a little differently. Itsknown for its literature from Ernest Hemmingway to Tom Corporate Key West hasalways been a favorite siting for authors. Thestory of the Ke

英语听力：自然百科 仙人掌 peyote

Outsiders call it peyote. The Huichol, an indigenous tribe in western Mexico, call it hikuri, and they teach their children to use it. While most societies outlaw this consciousness-altering drug, Mexico permits the tribe to use it as the central exp

英语听力：自然百科 印度的繁华旧梦：Goa

In 1498, the Portuguese became the first Europeans to reach India by sea. They came in search of spices and Christian souls, spices they found in abundance, but the Christians they would have to generate for themselves. The capital city of old Goa qu

英语听力：自然百科 世上最早的四足动物

Nature's latest report from the world of paleontology challenges the assumptions made by everyone until now about when animals first walked the earth. This is footprint of early tetrapods. We have here, for example, digits, impressions, and something

英语听力：自然百科 论自然与科学

Sir David Attenborough has been making natural history films for the BBC for over 50 years. In this time, he, perhaps more than anyone alive, has seen evidence for evolution in the stunning diversity of nature. To find and film animals. This is the b

英语听力：自然百科 时空探秘

Every year on the beautiful Lindau island of Lake Constance, some of the best of the worlds young scientists meet Nobel Prize winners. As it turned out, this meeting of physicists was a true meeting of minds. And so native created five new films expl

英语听力：自然百科 滑雪巡逻队

In the predawn hours from high in the Wasatch Mountains, Salt Lake City looks like dancing fireflies. You're climbing to an elevation of 11,000 feet, just to make a morning meeting. Forecast is for increasing clouds, one to three today, four to five

英语听力：自然百科 犹他州国家公园

Nothing whets the appetite for a road trip quite like America's Wild West. Plan your trip along the Colorado River Scenic Byways and you'll be treated to a natural spectacle like no other. Just take U-9 Zion Park Scenic Byway, ride into Zion National

英语听力：自然百科 松露：世上最贵的蘑菇

In this small town in Provence, they are gathered to give thanks for their blessings. Saint Antoine gave us truffles, the villagers of Richerenches sing at the annual truffle mass. They are even willing to pay for it. The collection plate is filling

英语听力：自然百科 环球风情：日本

Hi everyone! I'm Petty Kim. Today our destination is Japan, a country that steeped in tradition, but one that also lives on the cutting edge of the future. It's one of the few places in the world where tradition and change go hand in hand. A place bu

英语听力：自然百科 环球风情：巴西

Hello, I am Petty Kim. We're packing our bags for Brazil on a journey that'll take us from some fabulous beaches to the unspoiled depths of the Amazon rainforest. Not to mention, one of the biggest festivals in the world. Roughly the size of the cont

英语听力：自然百科 墨西哥斗牛

Gaston Santos Senior is famous across Mexico. In a 30-year-career, he's fought 2,000 bulls, becoming a legend in a sport many consider appallingly cruel. Is there no violence in hockey or boxing? It's in our nature. We have become predominant in this

英语听力：自然百科 圣城麦加

Mecca sits in the western mountains of Saudi Arabia, in a sanctuary roughly 100 mile square. Since long before Islam, it has been considered sacred territory where no one could hunt, cut trees or fight. At the heart of the city is a great mosque call

英语听力：自然百科 坦桑尼亚：桑吉巴市

For centuries, the winds of the Indian Ocean have brought explorers and merchants to the island of Zanzibar. Through rough seas and monsoon weather, one ship has sustained trade and travel, the Dhow. At 150 feet, this is the biggest Dhow constructed