Turkey Border Closure Divides Syrian Refugee Families LONDON In a dark, damp backyard of an apartment block in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, 60 kilometers from the Syrian border, Samar Shekho straps a ventilator over the nose and mouth of her five-y

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《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词3500》Unit 19 加菲猫的创造者吉姆·戴维斯

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By Melinda Smith Washington, DC 30 January 2007 watch Highway Pollution report A study of 3600 children living near busy highways in southern California shows that auto emissions can stunt a child's lung development and increase the risk of early re

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By Carol Pearson Washington, DC 18 July 2006 watch Air Pollution report Scientists at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research observed the highest air pollution on record above the Arctic Circle in May. Air pollution has been link

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Diesel fuel in the US and the fumes from diesel engines are about to get a whole lot cleaner. As of today, the Environmental Protection Agency is requiring much of the diesel in the country to have 97% less sulfur in it. It's the start of a project

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 04 December 2007 The fumes from household cooking fuels pose a huge and largely unrecognized health hazard to inhabitants, especially women and children -and India, with its huge rural population, suffers an inordinate nu

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By Meredith Buel Washington 24 August 2006 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan meets with European foreign ministers Friday in Brussels where he is expected to encourage them to send armed forces to southern Lebanon to help enforce the truce

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The United Nations' World Meteorological Organization says there is a close relationship between weather-climate systems and global pollution. The organization says these relationships also affect people's health. The World Meteorological Organizati

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AmeriCorps Grantee Serves Up New Approach to Childhood Obesity WHITE HOUSE The kindergarten students at John Burroughs Elementary School are staying an hour later on this day not to brush up on their reading or math skills, but to taste kale many for

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There's a good chance that the air you breathe is too polluted to be healthy. That's ac???cording to a new study just released this week by the World Health Organization, which is part of the United Nations. It says the vast majority of the global po

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Joining us now is reporter Tang Bo to tell us more about the measures the Chinese government has taken to cope with the air pollution. Tang: Poor air quality in Beijing and the Beijing cough has repeatedly embarrassed the country in the international

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi, Kenya 06 December 2007 Kenya's capital, Nairobi, is home to one of Africa's largest dumpsites. A recent United Nations study found that nearly half of the children surveyed who live near the dumpsite suffer from serious med

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Too Cold to Exercise? 天冷不宜锻炼? D: WooIt's freezing out. Y: Come on, It's not that cold. D: Sure it is. Yael.I guess there's just no way I can go jog ging today. Y: Oh, so that's what this all about. D: Not really. What if my lungs freeze

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