AS IT IS 2015-11-27 Worries of Famine After Drought in Ethiopia 干旱之后的埃塞俄比亚面临饥荒 The people of Ethiopia were nearly wiped out by famine in the early 1980s when 400,000 died. The countrys government is seeking aid to make sur

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Here are two seemingly unrelated facts. One: from the late 1940s through 1963, we tested atomic bombs in the atmosphere. Two: wine lovers are sometimes duped into spending exorbitant amounts for fake vintage bottles that werent from the year they wer

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Science and technology. 科技。 Climate change. 气候变化。 Good news at last? 终于来了好消息? The climate may not be as sensitive to carbon dioxide as previously believed. 气候对二氧化碳的敏感性可能低于先前的预期。

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China's air pollution and smog could be caused by melting ice caps in the Arctic a new study claims. 一项新的研究称,中国的空气污染和雾霾可能是由北极冰盖融化引起的。 The study published by Science Advances says that me

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Rainforests exist because it rains a lot and that makes forests grow, right? Well, not so fast. What if its not the rain that makes the forests? What if its the forests that actually generate the rain? That is the contention of a paper in BioScience

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This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. About a billion years from now, some scientists say, the sun will be too bright for comfort, and our formerly hospitable planet will no longer be able to

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The Ministry of Environmental Protection said that industrial emissions, vehicle exhaust fumes and heating reliant on coal were three main factors that caused wide-spread air pollution across China in the past week. 环保部日前表示,工业排放

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AS IT IS 2016-03-09 Trending: New Octopus Spotted on Ocean Floor 海底发现章鱼新种类 This is Whats Trending Today: There are still lots of undiscovered areas around the globe but most are below the surface of the ocean. Recently, the U.S. Nat

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Science and Technology Pollution in the Himalayas Time to call the sweep? 科技 喜马拉雅山受到了污染 是时候呼吁清扫了吗? Soot gets everywhere. Even into the world's highest mountains 到处都弥漫着烟灰,甚至蔓延到了世

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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Storm Warnings: Trying to Understand the Causes of HurricanesBy Nancy Steinbach and Caty Weaver and produced by Brianna Blake Broadcast: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 VOICE ONE: Th

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25 大气层中臭氧正日渐稀薄 DATE=3-21-01 TITLE=SCIENCE REPORT - (1)Springtime Ozone Loss BYLINE=George Grow (Start at 1'00

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A first date falls into two categories: following up on an introduction, or pursuing personal instincts when asking out someone of your choosing. No matter which approach is taken, first dates can be stressful for both parties. It is normal to be a l

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谷歌收购无人机公司 In its latest purchase of high-tech companies, Google has acquired a manufacturer of solar-powered drones that can stay in the air almost indefinitely, relaying broadband Internet connection to remote areas. It is seen as

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The Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games was inaugurated on Tuesday in Beijing, a move experts believe may mark a new phase in the capital's air pollution control, efforts after the city has been regularly eng

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BEIJING, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese lawmakers on Friday suggested formulating an environmental monitoring law to prohibit disorderly, arbitrary monitoring of the environment. China lacks a special law or regulation on the management of environmental

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Beijing is considering listing smog as a meteorological disaster, but the move has been questioned. 北京正考虑将霾列为气象灾害,但此举引发了质疑。 The legal committee of the Beijing Municipal People's Congress started work on t

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What came first, the chicken or the egg? 先有鸡还是先有蛋? The egg. Final answer. As the geneticist Haldane remarked, The most frequently asked question is: 'Which came first, the chicken or the egg?' The fact that it is still asked proves

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1. Former Senate Ted Stevens and at least 4 others have been killed in a plane crash near a remote fishing village in Alaska. Former NASA chief Sean O'Keefe and his son were also on the plane but survived the crash. 2. A combative Charles Rangel has

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新GRE阅读文章内容复杂程度降低了,但是新GRE阅读变化在于逻辑复杂程度升高。考生们想要获得新GRE阅读理解的高分,则更加注重文章的内在联系。这反映了ETS对于影响研究生阶段学术成功的

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GRE新改革,阅读形式大调整。改革之后旧GRE考试成为历史,新GRE考试题型有所变化,包括GRE阅读理解部分的形式调整比较明显? 新的GRE考试当中关于GRE阅读理解部分所进行的形式上调整是比较明

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