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Wilderness Areas Suffer from Human Sound 人类噪音害苦了野生生灵 Noise can prevent an animal from hearing other important sounds. 噪音会妨碍动物听到其他重要的声音。 Rachel Buxton, a conservation biologist at Colorado State
At first glance, dust storms do not seem very fascinating. Winds pick up fine particles from the ground, and then the air becomes thick with dust. What is interesting, though, is that dust storms can travel across the ocean, sometimes from continent
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 17 April 2008 The World Trade Organization's (WTO) annual report finds world-trade growth slowed to 5.5 percent in 2007 from 8.5 percent the year before. WTO predicts global trade growth will continue to slow this year. Lisa Sc
By Mil Arcega Washington 29 April 2008 Hundreds of truckers gathered in Washington DC on April 28 to protest the high cost of fuel. The truckers say Washington lawmakers have been far too silent on an issue that has grave repercussions for the U.S. e
By Nico Colombant Dakar 07 February 2007 The outgoing head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast is making dire predictions about the future of the divided west-African country. VOA's Nico Colombant reports from Dakar. Pierre Schori U.N. mi
By Tom Rivers London 24 July 2006 British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Iraqi counterpart Nouri al-Maliki have met Monday, in London. Planned discussions on political and security developments in Iraq were instead dominated by the crisis in Leba
As the financial crisis claimed more victims this week on Wall Street, the rest of the world's markets and banks have been in turmoil. In Britain, 45,000 banking jobs are now in jeopardy. VOA's Mandy Clark looks at the global financial fallout of th
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 09 January 2008 A new U.N. report says the risk of global economic recession is rising. The report, by the U.N. Conference On Trade and Development, says international trade is expected to slow and the world economy to cool off
High tech gadgets such as cell phones are bringing profound change to developing nations, and not just economic progress. Text messaging, the Internet and other innovations are having wide ranging social repercussions, from exposing human rights abu
Key Local Afghan Police Force Slow to Catch On Coalition planners say they need 100 police officers to secure Marzak. Village elders promised at least that many men would volunteer for a new Afghan Local Police force. But by late January, fewer than
Experts: Africa's Energy Facilities Could Face More Sophisticated Attacks Terrorists with links to al-Qaida stormed a gas production complex in Algeria in January. They wrecked equipment and took hostages. Government forces re-took the facility, but
Hundreds of paramilitary soldiers have returned to their barracks in Dhaka. Many claim they were not involved in the mutiny at the headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles, but fled the violence that is believed to have left more than 100 of their comma
By Bill Rodgers Washington, DC 08 September 2006 watch Journalist at Risk Jill Carroll while in captivity Foreign correspondents for western media outlets have always faced dangers in the field. But recently western journalists have become high-valu
World Markets on Edge as Greece Misses Deficit Reduction Target U.S. stocks followed European and Asian markets into the red on Monday after Greece announced it will miss deficit reduction targets worked out in a bailout deal with lenders. Despite a
By Barbara Schoetzau New York 09 August 2006 A delegation from the League of Arab Nations has met with the U.N. Security Council to push for revisions to the U.S.-French draft resolution aimed at a truce in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah
Anger that the government's plans yield more cuts was directed to the policemen in Athens last night. Two thousand protested to against proposed austerity measures. Some throwing missiles at policemen in riot gear, ten were arrested. In the later of
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 05 July 2007 In this information age, governments are reaching out to people in other parts of the world in an emerging field called public diplomacy. Mike O'Sullivan reports, mid-career officials from government and in
By Paula Wolfson White House 11 October 2006 President Bush is calling for strong international action in response to North Korea's nuclear-test claim. Mr. Bush made clear he favors a forceful diplomatic message to Pyongyang. ----- George W. Bush Pr
By Edward Yeranian Cairo 17 October 2009 The U.S. Defense Department says that it's cancelling the deployment of a 3,500-member Army brigade to Iraq in January, amid improving security. Some violence continues, however, such as the explosion Saturda
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