VOA标准英语2013--Forensic Testing of Ivory Could Combat Elephant Poaching

Forensic Testing of Ivory Could Combat Elephant Poaching The sweeping grasslands of the African savannah might not exist without elephants. They knock down so many trees that forests transform into plains, where other grazers and birds feed. Elephant

VOA标准英语2013--Yoga Helps Mentally Ill Improve Their Lives

Yoga Helps Mentally Ill Improve Their Lives Ericpaul Clark has been taking yoga classes for several months. Hes been in jail and a psychiatric facility after abusing drugs. Today, he says hes clean and looking forward to a better life. Yoga helps kee

VOA标准英语2013--Obama Proposal Could Help US-Russian Ties

Obama Proposal Could Help US-Russian Ties President Obama chose an iconic Cold War location -- the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin -- to make his new arms control proposal, offering to reduce U.S. nuclear warheads by one third. I intend to seek negotiated

VOA标准英语2013--Bacteria Thrive on Ocean Plastic Debris

Bacteria Thrive on Ocean Plastic Debris It takes about six weeks for a plastic bag or bottle to ride the surface currents from the U.S. East Coast to the Sargasso Sea, in the center of the North Atlantic. The area is a gyre, essentially a big whirlpo

VOA标准英语2013--How Relevant Are Computing Behemoths?

How Relevant Are Computing Behemoths? Your basic personal computer has one microchip at its core. The Central Processing Unit, or CPU, executes a set of commands contained in a predesigned program. The first supercomputers had a few more CPUs, but co

VOA标准英语2013--Tough Childhood, Political Battles Marked Turkey's Embattled PM

Tough Childhood, Political Battles Marked Turkey's Embattled PM Istanbul's Kaptanpasa neighborhood, a working class district where everybody knows and supports each other. Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan grew up in this modest apartment

VOA标准英语2013--Indonesian Fires Reveal Unfulfilled Environmental Promises

Indonesian Fires Reveal Unfulfilled Environmental Promises It's an annual occurrence in the dry season: a smoky, hazardous haze blankets southern Malaysia and Singapore. This year it was so bad that in some affected areas there was a 100 percent rise

VOA标准英语2013--Europe Demands Answers on NSA Bugging Claims

Europe Demands Answers on NSA Bugging Claims The German magazine Der Spiegel and Britains Guardian newspaper claim to have evidence showing that the U.S. National Security Agency bugged the European Union mission in New York and its embassy in Washin

VOA标准英语2013--Study Shows Promising Results in Reducing Risk of Stroke, Heart Attack

Study Shows Promising Results in Reducing Risk of Stroke, Heart Attack High blood pressure increases the risk for heart attack and stroke. That's why health experts the world over are concerned about the increasing number of people with high blood pr

VOA标准英语2013--Findings Could Help Slash Child Malnutrition

Findings Could Help Slash Child Malnutrition Child malnutrition is a global problem. It exists even in rich countries. It affects a large number of children in Asia, especially in south Asia. In parts of the world, such as sub-Saharan Africa, it thre

VOA标准英语2013--California Winemakers Target China

California Winemakers Target China Producing Napa Valley wine is a highly skilled craft, and Chinese consumers are developing a taste for it, says Tom Hinde of Yao Family Wines, started by former Chinese basketball star Yao Ming. We've made five vint

VOA标准英语2013--Kerry Returns to Mideast to Press for Talks

Kerry Returns to Mideast to Press for Talks Kerry returns to the region after talks late last month produced what he called real progress. With a little more work he believes the start of final status negotiations on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

VOA标准英语2013--South Africans Want to Give More This Mandela Day

South Africans Want to Give More This Mandela Day Mandela dedicated his life to giving South Africa the biggest gift he could imagine: freedom. On his 91st birthday, this extraordinary man finally asked the world for something in return. Since that d

VOA标准英语2013--Burma’s President Visits London Amid Accusations Of Ethnic Cleansing

Burmas President Visits London Amid Accusations Of Ethnic Cleansing President Thein Sein has been embraced by the West as a political reformer. British Prime Minister David Cameron welcomed him to London in the mutual hope of developing trade links.

VOA标准英语2013--US Unveils Green Supercomputer

US Unveils Green Supercomputer Lined up in a sprawling room on the second floor of Argonne National Laboratorys Theory and Computing Sciences building is the future of supercomputing. Argonne Director Eric Isaacs says MIRA can go where few computers

VOA标准英语2013--Campaign Begins to Ensure Free Press

Campaign Begins to Ensure Free Press The African Union has launched an effort to rid East Africa of colonial-era defamation and sedition laws. Since independence, many countries have used them to clamp down on freedom of the press. The effort to have

VOA标准英语2013--Researchers Record Iceberg Breaking Loud as an Earthquake

Researchers Record Iceberg Breaking Loud as an Earthquake The sound can be mistaken as a stringed instrument like a double bass, or maybe some kind of truck on the highway. But it actually is an iceberg, in the Antarctic Weddell Sea, grinding slowly

VOA标准英语2013--Morsi Overthrow Divides Mideast, Deepens Turmoil

Morsi Overthrow Divides Mideast, Deepens Turmoil With Egypt's ouster of the Islamist president in the limelight, Syria's brutal civil war has been out of the headlines in recent days. But President Bashar al-Assad is using Egypt's crisis as propagand

VOA标准英语2013--DRC Army Advances in 4th Day of Battle

DRC Army Advances in 4th Day of Battle The scene is a government army position at mid-afternoon Wednesday, just after the M23 had started targeting some nearby tanks. You men get forward, the sergeant is shouting. Where are you retreating for? Get in

VOA标准英语2013--New Software Tells Who's in the Forest and Who Isn't

New Software Tells Who's in the Forest and Who Isn't If you listen closely to a recording of a rainforest in Puerto Rico, you probably will not be able to count how many frogs you hear. Unfortunately, one of those frogs - the one with the really high