Climate change may be partly to blame for the massive die-off of pine trees in the western U.S. But it works the other way, too: forest die-offs can alter the global climate. I like thinking of this as a parallel to something like El Nino. Abigail Sw

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1. What does he look like? 1. 他看起来怎么样? 2. Is it a good book? 2. 这本书好看吗? 3. Is your hotel OK? 3. 你的旅馆还好吗? 4. Did you enjoy the film? 4. 你喜欢这部片子吗? 5. I never want to travel with Richard again. 5. 我

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RAY SUAREZ: Finally tonight, new research and warnings about the risk of worsening flooding connected with climate change. A report released today by the research organization Climate Central finds the rise in sea level along many coastal communities

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When they wheel you into the operating room, climate change is probably the last thing on your mind. But maybe it should be on your anesthesiologist's mind. Because the gases used to knock you out contribute to global warming. Researchers, including

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1. The Environmental Protection Agency has taken a major step toward regulating greenhouse gases, saying they are threat to the public health. The news comes as the UN's biggest climate change conference is underway in Denmark. Organizers say this ma

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中美元首气候变化联合声明(双语) U.S.-China Joint Presidential Statement on Climate Change 中美元首气候变化联合声明 September 25, 2015, Washington D.C. 2015年9月25日于华盛顿特区 1. In November 2014, President Barack O

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By Efam Dovi Accra 24 September 2006 Climate experts from across Africa, meeting in Ghana, say climate change would have a severe impact on Africa's water resources, energy, agriculture and eventually food security. The experts were assessing where

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[00:00.82]Speaking [00:02.03]Exercise 1 Listen to two people discussing [00:06.04]an atricle from a newspaper. [00:08.33]Who has these opinions-the man, [00:10.95]the woman or both? [00:15.83]Have you seen this article on the environment? [00:18.43]Y

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Severe Drought, Wildfires Threaten Water Resources This is Valles Caldera. Actually, it's the giant mouth of a dormant super volcano that last erupted 40,000 years ago. In the millennia since then, the terrain developed high-elevation forests, of abu

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UN Report Urges Speedier Action to Avoid Climate Disaster 联合国敦促各国开发绿色能源 避免发生气候灾难 WASHINGTON The world must switch from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources to control the effects of climate change, a new Un

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NOEL KING, HOST: Climate change is causing more rain in many parts of the U.S., and more rain means more flooding. And that is bad news for one Great Lakes region crop - wild rice. NPR's Rebecca Hersher has the story. REBECCA HERSHER, BYLINE: Norther

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HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: Scientists studying climate change in Antarctica reported this week that the hole in the protected ozone layer of the earth's atmosphere has shrunk. The discovery of the hole in the mid-1980s led to a wo

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By Teri Schultz Brussels 06 April 2007 It took a contentious all-night session to bridge gaps between scientists and policy-makers, but participants at a U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changeconference in Brussels emerged with a document tha

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China's greenhouse gas emissions could start to decline within 10 years, according to a report from the London School of Economics. 伦敦政治经济学院的一份报告指出,中国的温室气体排放量将在未来10年内开始下降。 This

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春暖花开去植树!今年的植树节,你那里放晴了么?要是阳光明媚风和日丽,那就赶紧为这个春天再加上一抹绿色吧!Happy Arbor Day!小编今天为大家带来植树节(Arbor Day/Tree Planting Day)百科知识,你不

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Dr. Robin Niblett is the Director of Chatham House, a london-based international-affairs think tank. He says Sino-British relations are currently in the best shape in history. He attributes it largely to the booming bilateral trade. It is the economi

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The international political response to climate change began with the adoption of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992, which sets out a framework for action aimed at stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gase

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Curbing climate change The deepest cuts 控制气候变化 一切为了减排 Our guide to the actions that have done the most to slow global warming 我们的行为指南已经最大限度减缓了全球变暖 ON SEPTEMBER 23rd 120-odd presidents an

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To talk more about China's environmental protection targets, we have Wu Changhua, the Greater China Director of the Climate Group. But before we start, let's take a look at a set of numbers to have a clearer picture of how bad the environment is. Air

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atmosphere 大气 climate 气候 elements 自然力量(风 、雨) temperature 气温 to be warm, to be hot 天气热 to be cold 天气冷 frost 霜 hail 冰雹 snow 雪 thunder 雷 wind 风 mist 雾 cloud 云 haze 霾 rain 雨 downpour, shower 暴雨

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