Locust Plague Swarms Madagascar Madagascar is in the midst of a locust plague and its threatening the food security of more than half the population. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, the FAO, says it will take three years to bring the locu

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2013年(三月)

For the many voracious foreign readers waiting to read the works of Mo Yan the lack of translation of Mo's work is now their biggest obstacle. Professor Joao Martins is the Portuguese translator of Mo's novel Big Breasts and Wide Hips. The lack of di

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233. A volunteers crucial vote 一位志愿者关键性的决定 void-warranty The lessons I learned as a volunteer in Africa could fill volumes. Before I embarked upon my voluntary voyage, I felt a huge void in my life. When I look back upon it, the

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During this period the fish Conseil and I observed differed little from those we had already studied in other latitudes. 康塞尔和我在这个期间所观察到的鱼类,跟我门在别的纬度下研究过的,并没有多大差别。 Chief am

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Hot water scorches and drowns the roots of trees encroaching on the valleys. It can keep the forests in check and the rich pastures / open. Those pastures now produce the new grass needed to make rich milk and feed a bison baby boom. The few calves b

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2012年

Now it could be a revolution for the publishing business. It's been called electronic paper, computer device which can hold 100 books or receive newspapers downloaded whilst you sit on a train or anywhere else. But instead of a flickering computer sc

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英伦广角

Rene Montagne: And here on the West Coast, the sea lion population has quadrupled since hunting stopped some 30 years ago. But fishermen are lobbying for a return of those days. Tom Banse explains. Tom Banse: A clump of California sea lions is soaki

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By Lisa Ferdinando Miami 21 July 2006 Flordia warning sign Officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission recently went undercover to crackdown on people feeding alligators. Experts warn that interacting with alligators can cre

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Locusts are threatening to inflict more pain on some of the most drought-ravaged parts of eastern Australia. Hundreds of farmers have found beds of locust eggs and officials fear that many more have not been reported. Officials have said that recent

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Virginia City Tops Amazon's 'Well Read' List Americans love lists - of the top 50 colleges, the top 10 recording artists, the top 100 movies of the millennium, and on and on. These lists sell a lot of magazines, because theres always room for disagre

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A statue on Main Street in Enterprise, Alabama, features a woman holding a large, black boll weevil above her head. While many U.S. cities have suffered because of the recession, one town in the southern state of Alabama, has fared surprisingly well.

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West Nile Surge Keeps Exterminator Busy Four years ago, the mosquitoes around Virginia resident Stephanie Samples house and neighborhood were voracious. They would get into the car and before you could shut the car doors, Sample says. We would be dri

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Pesticides Threaten Thailands Reputation as Food Exporter Here, in the hills of Northern Thailand, farm workers like Inson face the constant pressure of producing optimum harvests for overseas clients. Many farms rely on imported chemical pesticides

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Like sea turtles who from the moment they hatch they are on their own. For predators, hatching time is a veritable feast. Even so, the strategy works. Carnivores gulp down virtually every hatchling, but a few do make it, not even the most voracious f

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2013年

Tyrannosaurus Rex, though, lives in an entirely different world. A male devours a Triceratops carcass. Those powerful jaws smash into the meat of the animal. Those gigantic teeth pierce down through flesh. These well-rooted teeth are there to break i

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Attacking another T-Rex may seem like suicide, but a creature with such a voracious appetite has to find food by any means. Cannibalism is the rule. Its not the exception. If youre a carnivore and theres meat there, you take advantage of it. In fact,

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This diver didn't see us. A shadow cast by our crag hid us from his view. 这个采珠人看不见我们。岩石的阴影挡住了他的视线。 And besides, how could this poor Indian ever have guessed that human beings, 并且,这个可怜的印度

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Topic1-Fudan University streamlines admission for rural students Fudan University is reforming its admission process to make it easier for outstanding students in rural areas to gain entrance. How does it work? Its a fair and feasible solution for ed

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