Somalia has one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced due to conflict. Now, a prolonged drought is adding to the country's many problems. A top U.N. official says he wants the Somali people to kno

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(二月)

Tokyo Electric Power Company says up to 120 tons of highly radioactive water may have leaked out of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Masayuki Ono is a spokesman for the company, which operates the nuclear plant. We followed correct proce

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在卫生间雪莉和一个陌生人搭上腔,两人讨论起补妆所需的化妆品和化妆品品牌等。两个人到底谈论了些什么呢? Listen Read Lear The development of the nation has created many problems. People are using more and more water resources. Also, development has crea

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The US Environmental Protection Agency lists stormwater as the primary cause of water pollution in the United States. Roads, shopping centers and housing developments are generally seen as enhancing a community's quality of life. But they can also di

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The 36-year-old bachelor ate his usual lunch at home. He had an apple, a ham sandwich with a sliced dill pickle, a bowl of chicken noodle soup with a couple of soda crackers, and a small candy bar, all washed down with an eight-ounce glass of milk. A

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Bridge Over Troubled Water Gregorian When you're weary feelin' small When tears are in your eyes I will dry them all I'm on your side Oh, when times get rough And friends just can't be found Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down Like a

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'Last Call' Sounds Water Alarm in Dry World You dont have to be a scientist to understand if you take more water out of the bathtub than you put into the bathtub, the bathtub will eventually go empty, marine biologist Tim Barnett says in the film. Th

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Scientists Say Africa Sits on Huge Reservoir of Water Scientists say an estimated 300 million people in Africa do not have access to safe drinking water and with climate change making rainfall less predictable, their plight is even more precarious. S

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Black, Foamy Water Worries Fracking Neighbors There is a lot of construction near Janet McIntyre's home in southwestern Pennsylvania. It's not new houses, but new industry: 10 gas wells, a compressor station and multiple drilling-waste ponds. The sta

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The fifth World Water Forum opened on Monday in Istanbul, Turkey. Thousands of people are at the meeting - from heads of state and environmental and business leaders to scientists and activists - to discuss ways to manage and conserve the precious r

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Water is a scarce resource in the desert regions of the Middle East. Though disputes over water have come close to triggering wars between nations of the region in the past, diplomats intervened to keep tensions to a minimum. Now a new study suggests

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Global Warming Might Threaten Water Supply Stanford University climate expert Noah Diffenbaugh led the study, which compares snowpack conditions across the northern hemisphere in the late 20th century with climate model projections for the next one h

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New satellite data reveal that groundwater in Northwest India is being depleted faster than it is being replenished by rainwater. Experts say the problem is being caused by farmers' excessive use of groundwater to irrigate their crops, and they warn

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MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: In southeast Alaska, the commercial king salmon fishing season was temporarily shut down this spring. That's because the numbers of wild salmon returning to spawn are at an all-time low, and that's worrisome news for those who ma

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What that circulation means to us human is that water is a moving target. We constantly have to seek it out in this endless cycle and intercept it wherever and whenever we can. This quest depend on water has played a defining role in human history. T

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It's just magic. When you follow it, you can see that this is the perfect union of the tree and the villages. The locals have kind of trained the roots, kind of guided them through and netted them together. What they've done here is they've grabbed s

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They could not lose. Resistance movements started. They would take over places like this and opened the sluice gate allowing the water to pour back down into Owens Valley. Irregularly they dynamited the aqueduct. But the city rebuilt it and the game

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The trapped Chinese icebreaker Xuelong broke through the Antarctic's heavy ice floes on Tuesday and was headed for open water. The vessel, which had been conducting China's 30th Antarctic expedition before going to the aid of the stramded Russian shi

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Todd: So, hey, Rebecca, speaking of environmental stuff, I was reading about a drought in Australia. You guys have a serious drought problem with water? Rebecca: Yeah, we do. We've had a drought for some time now and it seems to be getting worse and

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China has the world's third largest landmass and a wealth of natural resources. But as the world's most populous nation moves further along the path of industrialization and urbanization, water -- the very basis of life -- is becoming more scarce. Ov

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