Calculating Carbon Footprints

To better know their carbon footprint, a group of Australian landowners are doing their own calculations on what climate change could mean for them. They're looking at ways to improve yields and efficiency in their respective industries while lowerin

CNN 2010-06-28

History made in Australia. Julia Gillards sworn in as the countrys first female prime minister, but keen to mark the achievements of her predecessor. Kevin Rudd and I disagreed about the direction of the Government. I believed we needed to do better.

NPR 2009-6-28

NATO and Russia are resuming formal military cooperation on a range of security threats. John Psaropoulos has the story from Athens. NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said that NATO and Russia have restarted military-to-military contacts

PBS高端访谈:全球每6人中就有1人死于污染

According to a study published this week pollution of all kinds can be blamed for nine million premature deaths around the world every year. The study by the environmental nonprofit pure earth and published in The Lancet blamed air pollution for six

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AS IT IS 2015-10-01 Vietnam Hopes Subways Will Ease Traffic 越南寄望地铁可以缓解交通拥堵 Vietnam is developing quickly with skyscrapers and supermarkets. But the country still lacks one kind of public transportation that many countries

News & Reports 2010-09-18

Hello and Welcome to News and Reports on China Radio International. In This Edition A senior official of the People's Liberation Army of China says the ongoing Shanghai Cooperation Organization military exercise in south Kazakhstan is purely a strate

First Flight Completed of Plane with No Moving Parts

First Flight Completed of Plane with No Moving Parts Engineers say they have carried out the first-ever flight of an electric airplane with no moving parts. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, recently shared video of th

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2016-4-27

This is AP news minute. 1. Pop superstar Prince, who was widely acclaimed one of the most inventive musicians of his era, was found dead at his home on Thursday in suburban Minneapolis according to his publicist. No details were released into the cau

VOA慢速英语 2008 0123b

VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week, we hear some unusual sounds from space. Scientists created them by taking radio wave observations and turning them into sound waves

VOA慢速英语 2008 0212a

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers in the United States sometimes plant switchgrass as a border crop. But could this tall grass lower the nation's dependence on foreign oil? South Dakota State University professor Arvid Boe

2015年CRI 北京空气污染控制的进展

北京空气污染控制的进展 Municipal authorities in Beijing suggest one of the main reasons for the sharp decrease in air pollution in the capital so far this year is through the replacement of coal-fired power plants with gas-powered faciliti

Meat-free diet good for a healthy planet

Vegetarian restaurant owner Li Yu believes in the health benefits of plant-based eating. Former physicist Li Yu runs the city's first vegetarian restaurant. In 2008, Li Yu embarked on what some may perceive as a rather daunting mission: To convince a

Bonn climate talks see little progress

BONN, Germany, June 17 (Xinhua) -- The latest United Nations (UN) climate talks ended here on Friday with no surprise -- some technical issues saw some progress, as delegates usually said, while major disagreements remained. The two-week UN climate n

U.S. researchers discover way to produce biofuels

LOS ANGELES, March 6 (Xinhua) -- U.S. researchers have successfully used certain microbes to produce biofuels(生物燃料), opening a door to developing cheaper green energy. The discovery was made by researchers at the University of California, Los

雅思听力替换规律分析解读

雅思听力分三个场景，而今天我们着重来看一下雅思听力section 2场景，仍以社会生活场景为主，如旅游(traveling),校园生活(campus life)，银行(banking)场景，其中尤以旅游场景最为常见，下文是详细

中英双语新闻 西班牙国王下令解散国会

Air strikes in the northern city of Aleppo who pushed true safe grades in Feb to the point of collapse. Pihada Edwards reports. Russia has done little to ruin president Assad forces around to Aleppo. The Syria military was blamed for an attack on a h

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The European car industry was shaken yesterday after Volkswagens share price fell almost 20 per cent over its admission that it cheated on US emissions tests, triggering calls for a broader inquiry into the sector. 大众汽车(Volkswagen)承认其在美

中英双语新闻 我国永久居留政策渐入佳境

The President of the European Council says much work remains to be done to achieve a deal to keep Britain in the European Union. Speaking after the first day of a summit in Brussels ended without an agreement, Donald Tusk said talks would continue la

2015年CRI 中国在气候变化方面取得的成就

China has recently submitted a post-2020 climate change pledge to the United Nations, promising that compared with 2005, China will cut its CO2 output per unit of GDP by between 60 and 65 percent by 2030. Zou Ji, the deputy director at the National C

热门单词：“全国碳交易市场”用英文怎么说？

日前，中美两国发表《气候变化联合声明》，重申坚信气候变化是人类面临的最重大挑战之一，就推动全球经济向低碳转型做出切实行动。 请看《中国日报》报道： China plans to launch a national