KORVA COLEMAN, HOST: We've been covering a surge in black lung cases across Appalachia. That's the disease that destroys the lungs of coal miners like Mackie Branham. MACKIE BRANHAM: I'm in bad shape, man. I mean, I can no longer provide for my famil

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Section 28 Acid Rain 50 years ago, no one talked about acid rain. Then we didn't really know the harm it was causing to the world. Today almost every adult and school child is aware of acid rain and i

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Mercury tends to show up in strange places, like swordfish and sharks. Now researchers have detected small amounts of mercury in the fog that bathes the California redwoods, near Santa Cruz. The mercury levels they've measured are in parts per trilli

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1. Anger and grief have boiled over into a violent protest in the western Turkish town of Soma, where officials said at least 245 miners died in a coal mine explosion and fire. 2. The Pentagon is trying to transfer convicted national security leaker

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By Anya Ardayeva Moscow 23 March 2007 watch Mining Disaster report Many people in the Russian region of Kemerovo are in mourning. On Monday (March 19th), a massive methane explosion tore apart the Ulyanovskaya mine in Siberia, killing at least 108 pe

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The practice of blackface is as old as entertainment itself white - actors putting black makeup on their faces and acting like buffoons. British broadcaster Sky TV has been accused of a kind of blackface by hiring a white actor t

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Chen Guoqi at the Ministry of Environmental Protection is in charge of air quality monitoring in north China. He said the industrial layout of the region is problematic and the adjustment process is slow. So severe problems have emerged in north Chin

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China's energy production relies heavily on coal-fired power stations. As the world's highest emitter of greenhouse gasses, China consumed more than 400 million tones of coal last year. As many parts of China have been shrouded in a gray haze over th

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A New South Wales man who sent out a fake press released. The cross-coal company shares to fall as walked free from court. Mr. Moylan pleaded guilty to disseminating information to the market in January, 2013. He distributed a fake statement from ANZ

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The Australian share market suffered its biggest one-day fall since February, 2013 today on fears that global growth is slowing. The All Ords and the ASX 200 dropped 2% matching the fall that we saw on Wall Street overnight where the Dow Jones closed

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Topic1 Labor Camp in New DisguiseOver the weekend, a 70-year-old woman who has been detained at a so-called reprimand center in Henan Province is released following a public outcry. The local authorities now are investigating such centers in the prov

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Five months ago, a bustling fish market stood on the shores of Malawis Lake Chihuahua. Now, hundreds of fishing boats lie marooned on the cracked mud. Water levels fluctuate, but scientists say climate change is making the seasonal dry out of the lak

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I can see, captain, that nature is your obedient servant, any time or any place. You're safe on this lake, and nobody else can visit its waters. 船长,我看见大自然随时随地都被您所利用,给您方便。您在这湖中很安全,除了

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Natural Gas, Environmental Regulations Hurt US Coal Regions 天然气的使用伤害了美国煤炭产区的利益 洛根,西弗吉尼亚州许多发电厂在美国使用的是天然气代替煤发电,减少二氧化碳的排放量。虽然这可能是

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While this website is concerned about New Zealand news, we are very close to Australia in distance, in economic matters and in culture. The population of New Zealand is just over 4 million but another 500,000 New Zealanders live in Australia. Many of

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By Stefan Bos Budapest 08 June 2008 At least 37 miners in Ukraine were trapped underground following a powerful explosion during maintenance work at a coal mine in the eastern city of Donetsk. Officials say the blast destroyed the main shaft of the

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时态\语态 主动 被动 一般式 to do to be done 进行式 to be doing 完成式 to have done to have been done 完成进行式 to have been doing 1) 现在时:一般现在时表示的动词,有

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As the two sessions continue, CCTV reporter Su Yuting sat down for an interview with NPC Deputy Li Jianhua, Party Secretary of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and chairman of the Standing Committee of Ningxia People's Congress. Li Jianhua said the

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BEIJING, April 5 (Xinhua) -- China on Tuesday announced embargoes on some imports from and exports to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). In terms of imports, China banned purchases of coal, iron ore, gold, rare earths and several other

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