According to the study, rats have decimated seabird populations across 90 percent of the worlds island archipelagos. Professor Nick Graham of Lancaster University in Britain says at a recent visit at the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean, there

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(114) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2018年(十一月)

Underwater Robot to Hunt Lionfish to Help Protect Coral Reefs Lionfish are known for their beauty and unusual look, a common choice for people showing off the colorful creatures in fish tanks. But lionfish are also poisonous, with extremely long and

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玛格丽特威特海姆领导的项目致力于利用编织技术由一位数学家发明来重现珊瑚礁的生物,在赞颂珊瑚礁惊艳之美的同时,也让人理解了珊瑚礁生物背后所蕴含的双曲线几何之美。

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AS IT IS 2014-05-08 Climate Change Destroys Coral Reefs 气候改变毁坏珊瑚礁 Hello, my friends, and welcome back as we work together to improve your American English. Im Jim Tedder in Washington. Today we will learn more about our changing cli

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The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef on our planet.It's one of the seven recognized wonders of the natural world. The Reef itself is the place that most people explore, but there is much much more. The coral Reef is actually a very small

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This habitat into connect under all of vital to the well being of the Great Barrier Reef. This is the little known story of one of the most complex and spectacular Eco-systems on earth. The Great Barrier Reef is over 2,000 kilometers long which means

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When they leave the safety of the mangroves, they must cross that sandy desert and many hazards waiting for them in the lagoon.This is a mantis shrimp. From his neatly capped barrow, he surveys the world with the most complex visual system known to s

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This creature is much more than a passive drifter. It can move as fast as an Olympic swimmer. And it has 24 eyes, each complete with a lens that can form a detailed image. It uses its tentacles like a trawl net. When a fish makes a contact, thousands

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But there are now less than 2,000 living here, and they are becoming rarer all the time.-Before European settlers arrived, much of the coast here was covered in forest. And a lot of that was jungle just like this. This is a vibrant ecosystem in its o

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Reine island has the biggest concentration of wildlife on the barrier reef, but many of its animals are visitors, and at departure time they leave behind the sanctuary of one of the world's largest marine parks. The migrants cross international borde

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A new study says that a global agreement on climate change will come too late to save the majority of the world's coral reefs. The research comes as the Queensland state government announces a new multi-million dollar plan to protect the Great Barrie

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Sharks Rule the Reef's Underwater Food Chain Predators like wolves affect their ecosystems by eating their prey. But a more subtle impact involves fear. Predators also terrify prey species. And when, for example, elk are hiding, they don't spend as m

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Smallest Fish 最小的鱼 澳洲科学家宣称,他们发现了世界上最小的鱼类,这种鱼的寿命只有两个月,也不会发育出鱼鳍,牙齿和鱼鳞等构造。 这种鱼名为大型婴儿鱼(Stout Infantfish),是澳洲博物馆

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