This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Almost two hundred countries met for two weeks at a United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark. In the end, only five of them reached an agreement: the United States, China, India, B

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Unit 9 Text A Listening First Listening Before listening to the tape, have a quick look at the following words. greenhouse effect 温室效应 alter 改变 release 排放 carbon dioxide 二氧化碳 t

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公司总裁Tim召集部门经理开会,讨论节能措施。 T: I've recently noticed how much paper I use on a daily basis and I've been trying to cut down. I've found that I very rarely actually need to print emails. Also, by utilizing my fax-mo

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50 二氧化碳以鲜为人知的方式影响气候变化 DATE=7-27-01 TITLE=ENVIRONMENT REPORT - Carbon Dioxide BYLINE=Mario Ritter (Start at 59

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Number one: we can fertilize our food. 第一:这能为我们的食物施肥。 Each one of us is pooping and peeing something that could fertilize half or maybe all of our food, depending on our diet. 我们每个人都产生能够肥沃我们一半

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Voice 1 Thank you for joining us for Spotlight, Im Joshua Leo. Voice 2 And Im Liz Waid. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 When I moved to a n

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奥巴马每周电视讲话:创造一个安全的能源未来 Hi, everybody. 大家好! On Thursday, I visited a steel plant in Cleveland, Ohio to talk about what we're doing to rebuild our economy on a new foundation for stronger, more durable e

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Science and Technology The rise of the dinosaurs Pardon! 科技 恐龙的崛起 恕我直言! A geological burp may have led to the dinosaurs' domination 地质上的甲烷释放可能是恐龙称霸地球的原因 THE s, famously, went out with a ba

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GWEN IFILL: From the night he was reelected, President Obama has made clear that cutting greenhouse gas emissions was a centerpiece of his second-term agenda. Today, his administration unveiled its biggest effort yet to tackle the issue of climate ch

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Bill Gates is no stranger to progressive thinking. The philanthropic foundation he runs with his wife, Melinda, has backed everything from longer-lasting pill-based contraception to a process whereby human waste can be converted into safe, drinkable

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Why Didn't Earth Freeze Completely? Research published in the July 2 issue of Nature reveals one reason our planet didn't succumb to an enveloping ice sheet during glacial ages. Christie Nicholson reports. [The following is an exact transcript of th

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AGRICULTURE REPORT - Food for Crops: How to Get the Most From Organic Fertilizer By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 I'm Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Th

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cabbage n. 洋白菜,卷心菜 解析:联系记忆:Chinese cabbage 大白菜 cabin n. 简陋的小木屋 cabinet n. 橱柜;(Cabinet内阁) cable n. 电缆,粗绳 cafeteria n. 自助食堂 calculat

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Demonstrators want world leaders to reach tough new deal on cutting emissions Jennifer Glasse | London 05 December 2009 Climate demonstrators in central London, 05 Dec 2009 Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through London demanding action at

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CANBERRA, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Australian Labor Party's primary vote stands at just 30 percent, down 5 points since December, the latest Herald/Nielsen poll published in Fairfax newspapers showed on Monday. This is the first time that Tony Abbott is t

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1. Flights and trains are slowly resuming across the Northeast, but the lines are still long and a lot of flights are still canceled. Thousands of travelers are trying to get home after a massive blizzard dumped more than two feet of snow in parts of

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Part 2. Campaign California Re-leaf. Keywords. tree planting campaign, carbon dioxide, personal actions. Vocabulary. kick off, coalition, deflate. carbon dioxide, neutral, deplete, irreversible, on hand, copper beech, Styrofoam. A. Listen to three sh

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There is a new substance that is harder than diamond. It's called Q-carbon, and it was created by researchers at North Carolina State University. 北卡罗莱纳州立大学的研究人员研发出一种名为Q-碳的新物质,其硬度比钻石还高

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During the Qingming Festival, Chinese custom calls for burning fake money or set off fireworks as an offering to loved ones who've passed away. But as times change, more and more people are turning to some environmentally-friendly ways to pay their r

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Voice 1 Hello, Im Marina Santee. Voice 2 And Im Ruby Jones. Welcome to Spotlight. This programme uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, now matter where in the world they live. Background voice On your m

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