Henry helped violet spread the hops quilt across two chairs. Then Jessie took a tiny pair of scissors out of a carrying case in her pocket. Coral lent me these, she explained. She leaned over and began, very, very carefully to cut the threads that he

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 99 The Finders Keepers Mystery

The tropical night descends on a quiet beach, but just off shore, beneath the tranquil waves things are busy. A group of research scientists are scouring a coral reef looking for fish, or more accurately, the parasitic passengers attached to the fish

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, we will tell about newly-found organisms that are said to be among the oldest living organisms on Earth. And, we will tell a

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By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 21 February 2007 watch New Discovery Center One of the newest attractions for visitors to Florida, the southernmost point in the continental United States, celebrates the undersea world in and around the famous Florida K

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Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Timor Leste and Papua New Guinea have set new plans to protect the Coral Triangle - a 5.5 million square kilometer area that holds the largest biodiversity in the oceans. Scientists consider it to be the marine

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A MARTINEZ, HOST: There are few places on Earth where the impact of climate change is more noticeable than along the Great Barrier Reef. It's the planet's largest living organism that now has become the world's largest dying organism. In the past 18

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Scientists on Thursday released results of a landmark study to record the diversity of life in and around Australias reefs. The scientists from the Census of Marine Life have reported finding hundreds of new species of marine life off two islands on

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For thousands of years, this powerful current has regenerated the reef. But it can not repair everything. Beneath the waves lie deeper scarsthe largest coral reef on Earth is home to a dazzling diversity of marine species, some found nowhere else on

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The pearl luggers then turned their attention to something else, a much bigger target. The reef has always provided a great haven for large animals, like turtles who nest on the coral piece. Whole populations of turtles were brought to the verge of e

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One of the early methods to getting rid of a starfish was to cut them in half, then killing them with a knife, but starfish has this amazing property when they regenerate. Far from killing them, cutting these animals in half actually creates two of t

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It's an astounding mechanism, but it looks like it's being overwhelmed. Recently, the coral has been telling us that its had enough. Because when it overheats, it self-destructs, expelling the algae that live with them. They turn deathly pale, a proc

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As a polyp grows, it puts up a wall of limestone around itself. And then it multiplies. Each polyp can produce thousands of offspring, which all work together to build a living fortress-- a coral reef. After just a few years, a single piece of coral

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Inside the flesh of these tiny animals are microscopic plants called algae, but these aren't parasites. None of this would be here without them. Wachenfeld: When the algae photosynthesize, they take energy from sunlight and carbon dioxide, then make

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Aah, snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reefblue, clear water, magnificent coral, beautiful fish. How about cloudy water and dying coral and you have to look pretty hard to spot a fish anywhere? Nobody would want to go snorkeling in waters like you just

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