Study: Cheetah Population Dwindling 研究发现猎豹数量正在减少 In 1900, cheetahs numbered around 100,000. Today, there are just 10,000 in the wild. A new study says being fast is not enough to survive. Everybodys knows cheetahs are fast. So

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2014年(十月)

Welcome to Wednesday. This is CNN Student News. We're going to get things started today with different forms of extreme wheather. First up, fire. This one in California has burn more than 30,000 acres, but fire fighters have around 60 percent contain

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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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That'true. monarch butterflies lay their eggs on milkweed plants.The caterpillars feed on milkweed, from which they extract substances called cardenolides, a type of chemical that can cause heart arrhythmia. This toxin doesnt affect the caterpillars

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What Animals Are Most Like People 什么动物和人类最像 Once again we go to the mailbag. A listener writes: 我们又一次打开邮箱。一位听众写到 Dear A Moment of Science, Besides chimps, which animals do you think are the most like

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Tim Cope Explorer Wolves and Dogs Tim Cope is an award winning author, adventurer, explorer and film-maker with a special interest in the traditional cultures of Central Asia and Russia. He has worked as a wilderness guide in the sub-arctic regions o

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Here in the Timor Sea off northern Australia, take a look at a creature that seems to have the soul of a riverboat gambler. It moves through turf dominated by large hungry predators, and it fights these predators in a way that will astound you. This

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Here in the South American rainforest, you're watching what should be a joyous event, the laying of hundreds of eggs by a mother frog. In truth, only a very few of these eggs will blossom into full frogdom. Drought will take a toll, and predators wil

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Do you remember a few episodes ago, a podcast called Smoke to the North? We learned how to say that something is going on in a particular direction. Well, recently, we have had very bad fires to the West which are still burning. The photo on the blog

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By David McAlary Ocean animals in parts of Antarctica are facing a food shortage. A new British study finds that a staple of the marine wildlife diet, tiny shrimp-like creatures called krill, has dram

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From a birds eye view the vast Alaska tundra is nothing more than an endless flat surface symmetrical and seemingly uninhabited.However, a closer look shows that it is home to lots of busy creatures that live comfortably and the grass and pits filled

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神奇女子与鲨鱼和谐共游 Woman Swims With Sharks in Perfect Harmony The woman can hold her breath for six minutes while swimming with the predators.

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A melon field is pictured at a farm in the village of Djilakh, 80km south of Dakar, Senegal on 22 Apr 2008 (file photo) African farmers are making more money producing organically grown crops for European markets, where demand for healthier food is g

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Trauma Center Treats Sea Turtles This month, on beaches up and down the U.S. East Coast, tens of thousands of newly-hatched loggerhead sea turtles are emerging from the sand and crawling into the Atlantic. Very few of these baby turtles will survive,

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Racing to Save the Cheetah A wild cheetah sprinting across the African savannah has been described as poetry in motion. Dr. Laurie Marker can understand why. The award-winning conservationist and renowned cheetah expert has devoted her life to the pr

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Christy VanArragon. Voice 2 And Im Joshua Leo. Spotlight uses a special method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand - no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 A beautiful orange and white clow

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文本: The South Pacific is a vast ocean wilderness. Its waters are teeming with life, from tropical coral reefs that attract the great variety to the cooler, temperate waters that attract the great numbers. So why is it that in the midst of all t

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What on earth could drive this headlong rush to slaughter? Only earth herself with her insistent clocks. This story begins in the Great Rift Valley, where the continent is tearing itself apart and being reborn. The plains in the shadow of the rift, t

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Finally, they can rest. For another five months, they will cling to this winter refuge, entering a sort of waking trance of energy conservation. Until the longer days of spring awaken them again to mate and pass along to the young--their migratory im

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Last time we discussed how human beings are the only primate that walks on two feet. One theory for how this might have happened says that, when our species was just getting its start, reaching up for fruit was a good thing to be able to do. Those wh

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