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The part of the World that isn't patches of shadow or snow is water. 环绕着大陆的水叫做海洋， The water all around the continents is the ocean, and though of course there are no walls nor fences dividing it into different parts, 尽管并没

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There are very few people living in the Arctic. You would not expect to find much garbage there. Recently, however, some German researchers have discovered a lot of plastic, glass and other waste in the sea there. They say that there is twenty times

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Oh, hello squirrel! 哦，你好松鼠！ Hey it's me! 嘿，是我！ It's a long way to the North Pole. 去北极要走很长的路。 I'd better go tell Mother Bear I am leaving. 我得去告诉熊妈妈，我要走了。 What on earth has happene

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IN Through the Looking-Glass the story of The Walrus and the Carpenter starts this way: 在《镜中奇缘》这部童话小说里，海象与木匠故事的开头是这样的： The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: And this wa

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Top new UK band Arctic Monkeys One of the biggest new bands in the UK at the moment is Arctic Monkeys. Their first two singles went straight to number one in the charts and their debut album Whatever People Say I Am, Thats What Im Not has become a r

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Animals at Risk from Increased Arctic Shipping The polar bear may be the animal most often identified with climate change, but it is far from the only creature at risk from rising temperatures. The northernmost part of Earth is warming two to three t

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交流和贸易的需求使人们不停地在危险地带修建道路。就请跟随勇者来到阿拉斯加，穿越北极冻原；沿着尼泊尔古代的喜马拉雅商道，挑战危险的现代公路。用人类的勇气和决心和大自然打持

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The Heart of Dixie, The Last Frontier, The Aloha State and More... 迪克西之心,最后的处女地,夏威夷和更多 Now, the VOA Special English program Words and Their Stores. A nickname is a shortened form of a person's name. A nickname can al

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Sea Levels and Arctic Temperatures Rise 北极温度与海平面同上升 Scientists found sea levels are rising faster today than anytime over the past 3,000 years. Another group of scientists found that January temperatures in the Arctic hit a reco

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And in doing so, we were breeding them for parasitism. 为了做到这点，人类用喂养的方式来让它们寄生于我们。 We were giving them all sorts of reasons to adapt new ways. 我们给了动物们适应新环境的各种理由。 So,

TED演讲视频:游过珠峰的心态转变

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Data released this week by a team of explorers who trekked through the Arctic for three months this spring shows that North Pole will be an open sea during the summer months within 20 years. The Catlin Arctic Survey team, led by explorer Pen Hadow, m

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It seems as though temperatures are rising these days. Everyone knows its because of global warming. Its very dangerous. Higher temperatures are causing a lot of problems for the world. There are more hurricanes and floods. One of the most obvious si

PBS高端访谈:北极近海钻探是否破坏了奥巴马对气候保护的努力?

For more on the president's trip and some of the issues following him to the Arctic, we turn to Robert Bryce. He's a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and he has written widely on oil and gas and other energy industries. And Michael Brune, ex

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Denmark has rebuffed Russian attempts to launch talks aimed at swiftly deciding which nations own large swaths of the Arctic, including the North Pole. 丹麦拒绝了俄罗斯试图启动对话、迅速决定哪些国家拥有包括北极点在内的北

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The journey of the USS Jeannette in 1879 came out of the dreams of a lot of wise men who might have known better. It set sail from San Francisco in July of that year with 32 men to find what they hoped would be a kind of unspoiled

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Facing a freeze 面临冻结 Governments are reviewing plans to open Arctic waters to oilmen 政府正审查在北极开采石油的计划 WHEN BP's Macondo well began spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, 当英国石油公司的麦肯多油井开始向

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Ya?l: Today on A Moment of Science, global warming . . . D: Uhm, right . . . Y: That's your cue, Don. D: I know, Ya?l . . . but . . . Y: What's wrong? D: Well, we're a science program, right? And I know that the accepted scientific wisdom is that hum

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