VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell the latest about sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. We will also tell about an international competition involving so

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(十)月

At the top of the world, under the ice, lies a large number of natural resources. Gas, coal, uranium and other minerals, even diamonds, sit under the ice inside the Arctic Circle. As climate change pushes the cold and ice farther north each year, dis

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Oil Giants Eye Arctic Reserves Last winter in the Arctic, the Russian tanker Renda carved its way to the remote Alaskan port of Nome. Not long ago this voyage - made in December and January - would have been impossible. The warming climate means thin

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(九月)

The Arctic's Anti-Snowball Snowball Effect 北极的反雪球效应 Last Christmas, Santa Claus must have been loading his sleigh in a t-shirt and shorts. Temperatures at the North Pole crept up toward the freezing point when they should have been mi

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By Paul Sisco Washington 31 October 2007 A team of British explorers has announced they are going to the North Pole to measure the ice cap's thickness. The expedition, a collaboration of Cambridge University in Britain and a U.S. Navy oceanography sc

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By Kurt Achin Seoul 26 July 2007 South Korea says kidnappers who killed a South Korean hostage in Afghanistan will be held accountable for their actions. As family and friends of the victim mourn, South Korean negotiators are trying to save the lives

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Remembering Two Bright Stars of Music; 'To the Arctic' JUNE SIMMS: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im June Simms. This week on our program, we remember two music greats, Chuck Brown and Donna Summe But, fi

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Earths Arctic Ice Disappears, Scientists Study Nearest Exoplanet Each year, more ice disappears from the Arctic Ocean. A new study blames human activity for the loss. The damage is caused, the study says, by greenhouse gases coming from vehicles, air

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Dire Warnings Issued on Diminishing Arctic Ice Polar bears hunt seals from sea ice, but could drown if forced to swim long distances in open water. Satellite photos released by Americas space agency, NASA, illustrate the daunting threat to such bears

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Arctic Ice Melting Faster Than Predicted As government officials from eight Arctic nations - the United States, Russia, Canada, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Iceland - prepare to meet in Greenland next week to discuss the challenges of climate

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Russians Ignore Arctic Cold and Keep Protest Flame Burning Arctic cold held Moscow in its icy grip, but tens of thousands of people left their warm apartments to demonstrate against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Braving the same sub-zero tem

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have a kind of ghost story next. It's the backstory of a discovery. Three years ago on this program, we placed a phone call to the journalist Paul Watson. He was on an icebreaker, a ship in the Arctic with the aid of a helicop

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The Greenland High Arctic is a bare, sparse place. Rather than tall trees, it has tundraground hugging vegetationand rugged, Lord-of-the-Rings-style vistas. Well I don't know, it's not exactly New Zealand, but kind of similar landscape. Mikko Tiusane

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By Cynthia Kirk ENVIRONMENT REPORT - April 26, 2002: Arctic Refuge Drilling This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. The Democratic-controlled United States Senate has voted to block explor

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By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 01 February 2008 Scientists know that the waters north of Greenland, around the Arctic Circle, significantly influence global weather patterns. But until recently, they only have been able to measure the region's deep oce

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By Paul Sisco Washington 09 January 2008 Recent satellite data from the U.S. Space agency NASA indicate that sea ice in the Arctic and Greenland is melting at a faster rate than previously projected. VOA's Paul Sisco has the story. Climate scientists

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As government officials from eight Arctic nations - the United States, Russia, Canada, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Iceland - prepare to meet in Greenland next week to discuss the challenges of climate change, a report released May 4, 2011 un

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REYKJAVIK, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- China will launch its first international Arctic cooperation and research institute in Shanghai, sources attending a Sino-Iceland workshop told reporters here. The workshop on Arctic studies was held Friday as part of t

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to join fellow foreign ministers from the eight-nation Arctic Council on Thursday in Greenland's capital, Nuuk, for a meeting on polar region issues, including the receding Arctic ice cap. The meeti

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: People who grew up in the Arctic have seen dramatic effects - the dramatic effects of climate change during their lifetimes. One example - the northernmost town in the United States used to have a coastline that was edged w

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