United States is accusing Russia of doing nothing to implement a deal reached last week to calm the situation in Ukraine. NPR's Michele Kelemen has more what a shaping up to be a diplomatic stalemate. According to his office, Russian foreign minister

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 2014年NPR美国国家公共电台4月

Russian officials say they dont fear the Swiss investigation into alleged corruption in the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 world cups. NPRs Corey Flintoff says Russia denies any wrongdoing. Shortly after the United States indicted 14 people on corrupt

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

Expedition Finds World War II Navy Wreck A National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration expedition has located a naval vessel lost off North Carolina during World War II's Battle of the Atlantic. Steve Mirsky reports The National Oceanic Atmospheric

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(132) / 评论(0) 分类 60秒科学

Atmospheric pressure can support a column of water up to 10 meters high. But plants can move water much higher; the sequoia tree can pump water to its very top more than 100 meters above the ground. U

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(210) / 评论(0) 分类 新东方背诵文选

Agriculture Report - Experts Link East Africa Drought to La Ni?a in the Pacific 农业报道 - 专家认为东非干旱与拉尼娜现象有关 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 East

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(八)月

AS IT IS 2014-10-02 Scientists Predict More Severe Storms Worldwide 世界各地的科学家预测将会有更严重的风暴 As the worlds population grows, extreme weather conditions affect more and more people. The weather events may include flood

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 2014年VOA慢速英语(十)月

ECONOMICS REPORT - Carlos Gutierrez, Nominee for Commerce Secretary By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, December 10, 2004 I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Economics Report. President Bush sa

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 健康与经济

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Severe Ocean Storms: Behind Nature's Power By Caty Weaver Broadcast: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Bob D

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 科技之光

The RANET project helps national weather services improve their reach. Transcript of radio broadcast: 16 June 2008 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. In many developing countries, weather reports remain trapped in the capital. Natio

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(六)月

For thousands of years, humans have gazed up at the night sky and watched the stars. Now, NASA's Kepler mission gives scientists the chance to listen to the stars.? Astronomers are using stellar soundwaves to measure stars more accurately than ever b

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(十)月

Modern Technology Helping Weather Predictions 现代科技帮助预测变幻莫测天气 WASHINGTON Severe storms that cause heavy damage throughout the world are a reminder of how important it is to be able to predict the weather. A meteorological e

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2014年(十月)

ELISE HU, HOST: The world's oceans are rising up about eight inches on average over the past century. The seas are rising more in some places than others. As NPR's Christopher Joyce reports, scientists are beginning to predict where the rise will be

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台11月

New Satellite Provides Weather Forecasts For The Final Frontier play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0003:19repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年NPR美国国家公共电台11月

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Adam Frank usually has his head in the sky. He's an astrophysicist. It's an occupational hazard. Right now, though, he is dazzled by the universe of green right here on Earth. ADAM FRANK, BYLINE: Now that we're well past the star

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

谷歌收购无人机制造商泰坦公司 In its latest purchase of high-tech companies, Google has acquired a manufacturer of solar-powered drones that can stay in the air almost indefinitely, relaying broadband Internet connection to remote areas.

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2014年4月

Back in January, one of California's oldest and most iconic residents keeled over: the Pioneer Cabin tree, a giant sequoia in Calaveras Big Trees State Parkso big you used to be able to drive through it. The giant was blown over by high windsdelivere

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年Scientific American(三)月

If we could flip a switch and just turn off the Earth's magnetic field, it will take about 15,000 years to disappear, based on the rate of decay of the field that we've seen over the last 150 years. It's currently decaying at a rate that would see an

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2011年

Just as I arrived at UCLA with my first faculty position, everything was falling into place in terms of the ability to answer this question at the centre of our galaxy. The telescopes were getting bigger so you had the due ability to see fine details

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2013年

We now have a summary of our weather for last year. NIWA (the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) put this summary on their website. NIWA is a company which is owned by the government. Scientists at NIWA do research on climate, the

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

For several hours the Nautilus drifted in this brilliant tide, and our wonderment grew when we saw huge marine animals cavorting in it, 诺第留斯号在这种光辉的海波中浮游了好几个钟头,我看见粗大的海中动物, like the fi

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 《海底两万里》中英双语有声读物