Palau to Ban Sunscreen to Try to Save its Coral Reefs The Pacific nation of Palau will soon ban many types of sunscreen in an effort to protect its coral reefs. 太平洋岛国帕劳将很快禁止使用多种类型的防晒霜,以保护珊瑚礁。

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The Federal Government is denying it's doing a trade-off for the US government on asylum seekers. Australia has agreed to take three Guantanamo Bay detainees from the US. The ABC has been told the move is related to the US government's decision to ac

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Rescuers and aid workers are pouring into western China where a strong earthquake has left nearly 600 people dead. Another 10,000 were hurt when the quake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale caused buildings, roads and bridges to collapse. Many surviv

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A bushfire near Moore River about 100 kilometers north of Perth has been contained. The fire threat has now eased for the coastal areas of Lancelin, Ledge Point, Ocean Farms and Seaview Park. A lightning strike yesterday afternoon caused the bushfire

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Our story today is called The Sharks Were Hungry. It was written by Dorothy Cottrell. Here is Shep O'Neal with the story. Dr John Perry decided it was time to go home. It had been a perfect day, a day alone, the first such day in many years. He had f

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But even he has his limits. On the reef, there seem to be an almost infinitely variety of ways of feeding, some fish even cultivate their own food. So they're very protective of it. There's one fish species that is so good at defending its particular

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Some are little more than rocks, others substantial mountains, covered in woodland. The first British person to see that was captain Cook, who stood here in 1770, and for the first time, realized the scale of the Great Barrier Reef. He also realized

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Transcript (by myconsent, for reference only) Scientists on Thursday released results of a landmark study to record the diversity of life in and around Australia s reefs. The scientists from the Census of Marine Life have reported finding hundreds o

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By Brian Padden Irbil, Iraq 23 August 2006 watch Iraq Christians report The news media often focus on the conflict between Shi'ites and Sunni Muslims in Iraq. But there are other ethnic and religious groups under attack. The small Christian communit

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By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 23 April 2007 Scientists have discovered that an earthquake two years ago in Indonesia lifted hundreds of kilometers of sea floor out of the water, causing the largest death of coral reefs ever recorded. As Chad Bouchard rep

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It is a festive Christmas Eve in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Christian worshipers light candles inside the Church of Nativity, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, 24 Dec 2008 Palestinian boy and girl scouts marched through Manger Square in Beth

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The birds have flown in from New Guinea and Japan to the north, Fiji to the east and even from the Asian mainland, thousands of kilometers away. In summer, Green Island is the most crowded destination on the Great Barrier Reef. It may look chaotic, b

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-It's all exciting to see a large animal in the sea, and of course, the turtles are very iconic species in marine world. And I'm surrounded around this life. Hundreds and hundreds of turtles are in the water column above me, passing over the reef's c

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The United States Supreme Court is busy this week with a ninth justice, Neil Gorsuch, on the bench. Today, the court hears arguments in a Missouri case with the potential to open state coffers for aid to parochial schools. Like M

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Voice 1 Thank you for joining us for todays Spotlight. Im Joshua Leo. Voice 2 And Im Sara DeKoster. 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 The tow

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Because of their sophisticated senses and remarkable physique, white tips are great reef hunters. At night, they turn it into an art form, better than all other sharks. We expect sharks to be hunters, but after dark, the reef itself becomes one giant

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Some come and go in a matter of days. Others build and grow and can last for years. As plants take root and protect them from the elements. -The first glance of my seen that zone cave that pretty in hospit of the environment, but actually can support

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And extremely cold, at 4 degrees, it's the same temperature as the sea in the Antarctic, the ROV reaches a depth of 800 meters, not quite at the bottom, but not far off, a pilot of coral sand at the base of the reef wall slopes gently into the abyss,

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But that pales into insignificance, when compared to the daily vertical migration of these mircoscopic animals called zooplankton. At sunset, all of these tiny creatures swin upwards, and under cover of darkness, they grease on floating algae close t

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Shirley: So you said Paul Bunyan is famous. How do people know about him. Is he in childrens story books or do you learn about him at school? Jake: Yes, both. At school I remember having maybe a Paul Bunyan day. Its not an actual national holiday but

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