By Jim Bertel Washington, D.C. 30 June 2006 Watch Shuttle Report Shuttle lift off The U.S. space shuttle Discovery is set to launch to the International Space Station on Saturday, July 1, in only the second shuttle flight since the Columbia disaster

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By David McAlary Washington 26 June 2006 Members of the space shuttle Discovery crew leave the Operations and Checkout building during a count down dress rehearsal for flight STS-121 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Flarida on June 15,

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Jackie: Welcome to BBC Learning English dot com and another chance to hear Insight Plus - a series, first broadcast in 2001 that looks at the language of issues you hear about in the news. The earth is in danger. And some say the greatest threat is

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A trickle of statements from Chinese leaders in recent months have given hope to some residents of Beijing and other smog-choked Chinese cities that they might regularly breathe clean air within a few years. Prime Minister Li Keqiang in March declare

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China's greenhouse gas emissions are likely to peak by 2030 or perhaps earlier, taking into account the needs of industrialization and urbanization, the country's special representative on climate change said on Monday. 中国气候变化事务特别代

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Long Lines, Protests Greet Apple Launch of New iPad Now on sale in 10 countries, hundreds of people lined up at stores around the world - some camping overnight - to be among the first to own a third generation iPad. And amid the hype that's become t

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Analysts: N. Korea's Missile Launch is Not True Military Advance North Korea blasts its way into a club of nations with long-range missile capabilities. Four launches, three failures and, finally, success. North Korean scientists watched as the rocke

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And yet there's a proposal, of course, to build a pipeline to take huge tankers, 10 times the size of the Exxon Valdez, 然而,其中一项提案是-当然-建造输油管供应比Exxon Valdez大10倍的巨型油轮装载原油, through some

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FRANKFURT, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- German carmaker Volkswagen (VW) on Sunday announced that it had ordered an external investigation of the violation of U.S. emission rules. The company made the statement after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (

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By Chris Simkins Washington, DC 19 January 2006 watch Pluto Mission report The U.S. space agency NASA delayed the launch Wednesday of a rocket carrying a probe that will study the planet Pluto and its

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高温天气下树木竟然会污染环境! Normally, trees are the best defence against pollution; but when it's too hot outside, the trees' own self-defence mechanism may actually make things worse。 正常情况下,树木是抵御污染

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巴黎气候变化大会于2015年12月12日晚通过全球气候变化新协议。《联合国气候变化框架公约》近200个缔约方一致同意通过《巴黎协定》。协议规定,各国应着眼于尽快达到温室气体排放量的全球

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Volkswagen's top U.S. executive offered apology for emission cheating scandal in front of U.S. lawmakers on Thursday but no remedy schedule was announced. On behalf of our company, and my colleagues in Germany, I would

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The World Health Organization, upgrading a previous warning, said June 12 that diesel exhaust causes cancer and called for tighter emissions standards, comparing the risk of exhaust to second-hand cigarette smoke. Tuesdays announcement comes after in

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BEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- China will make more efforts to reduce PM 2.5 pollutants, as well as other pollutants, a government official said Tuesday. A national obligatory target will be set to limit PM 2.5 emission, which is a fine particulate matt

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BEIJING, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- China will try to expand the scope and scale of its government procurement program and continue to push for reforms in the area this year, China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Friday. While pledging to further improve l

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At least one-third of the ice in the Himalayan Mountains will disappear by the end of this century because of rising temperatures, scientists said this week. This will threaten river flows that provide water resources for 1.9 billion people. Huge gla

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The report, titled China's Response to Climate Change Policy and Action in 2015 is an assessment of the steps that have been taken to both reduce emissions and clean up the air in the country. Among the achievements laid-out in the analysis, the gove

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本期内容: TalksinParisoncurbingclimatechangeendedlastweekendinadealrequiringthe190-oddparticipatingcountriestocuttheiremissions.Theaimistoholdtheincreaseintheglobalaveragetemperaturetowellbelow2Cabovepre-industriallevelsandtotrytolimititto1.5C.

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It is evident that many Canadian baby boomers are indulging in vintage cars they could not afford when they were young。 显然许多在二战后生育高峰期(1945-1952)出生的加拿大人都对老爷车情有独钟,他们年轻时是买不起的

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