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Senior Obama administration officials say they believe a Washington meeting on climate change this week has somewhat improved chances for a new international treaty to tackle global warming. Experts from 16 major countries and the European Union too

VOA标准英语2012--US Drought Linked to Climate Change

US Drought Linked to Climate Change Parched earth In Texas, the earth is parched. Rivers have dried up, and pasture land has turned brown from the heat. Its been this way since January 2011. The southwestern state is the fourth largest producer of ri

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Despite Climategate, IPPC Mostly Underestimates Climate Change Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, James McCarthy of the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment noted

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AS IT IS 2013-07-10 Measuring the Effects of Climate Change Policies Welcome again, to the daily magazine show, As It Is, from VOA Learning English. Im Mario Ritter. Today, we hear about an unusual artist who decorates prosthetic limbs. We have a sto

VOA标准英语2012--Tree Deaths Linked to Climate Change

Tree Deaths Linked to Climate Change Stanford University graduate student William Anderegg has seen this forest die-off firsthand. His doctoral thesis documents the impact of drought on trembling aspen, the most common tree in North America. These ar

VOA标准英语2012--Small Island States Tackle Climate Change

Small Island States Tackle Climate Change Experts from more than 50 small island countries are meeting this week in Mauritius to discuss climate change and food security. The so-called Small Island Developing States are home to more than 50 million p

VOA英语2010年-Climate Change: More Funding Needed for Agri

A U-N agency says there are major funding gaps in efforts to help the agricultural sector adapt to climate change. The Food and Agriculture Organization, the FAO, says this could affect food security. The warning comes as the U-N Climate Change Confe

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United Nations talks on climate change are nearing a close with no clear consensus yet in sight. The meeting is aimed at laying the groundwork for progress at a major climate change meeting in Mexico later this year. While many of the negotiators for

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For generations, rich Colombian mountains have produced a variety of food crops, beans, cassava and notably coffee. But local coffee farmers say the weather is changing, and so are crop yields. Carmen Eneida Trujillo is worried. Look, there are not t

VOA标准英语2013--Environmentalists Embrace Obama Climate Plan

Environmentalists Embrace Obama Climate Plan The plan would help curb carbon emissions, prepare the nation for the impact of climate change and expand the U.S. global role in fighting it. Eileen Claussen, president of Climate and Energy Solutions, an

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right, thousands of politicians and scientists are wrapping up a climate conference in Germany. Maybe on the way out, they'll stop through wine country. And if they do, they'll find new varietals made possible by climate chan

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Ban Ki-moon says he's very pleased to have both China and the United States officially become signatories to the Paris Climate Change Agreement. The leaders of China and the United States officially joined the Paris Agreement on Climate Change by dep

美国国家公共电台 NPR For One City Manager, Climate Becomes A Matter Of Conscience

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Newspapers Worldwide Call for Climate Change Action On the first day of the Copenhagen climate conference, 56 newspapers publishing in 20 languages in 45 countries publish an unprecedented joint editorial calling for meaningful action to face the thr

VOA常速英语2007年-US Wants More Balanced Approach to Climate Chan

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 27 November 2007 The United States is urging the International Red Cross Movement to adopt, what it calls, a more balanced approach in dealing with the consequences of climate change. More than 1,500 representatives attending t

VOA标准英语2010-Climate Hastened Collapse of Angkor, Capi

Scientist uses tree rings to reconstruct 13th century climate Art Chimes | Washington, DC 05 April 2010 Photo: Photos.com Related Links: Angkor paper (full text) Buckley lab We started seeing these big, giant periods of drought that took place around

VOA标准英语2011--Thousands March for Climate Action in Durban

Thousands March for Climate Action in Durban Activists, rights groups and citizens from around the world took to the streets of Durban Saturday to urge government negotiators at the U.N. climate change conference to take their demands seriously. In a

美国国家公共电台 NPR How One Company Pulls Carbon From The Air, Aiming To Avert A Climate Catastrophe

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: At a climate meeting in Poland this week, almost 200 countries are trying to reach a deal - a deal to dramatically reduce carbon emissions. A recent U.N. report finds that may not be enough to avoid the most dangerous climate eff

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As a Climate Saver, Yingli has promised an emission reduction target for a fixed period of time. By 2015, at least 4-percent of the electricity the company consumes will come from renewable sources, specifically solar. This target is four times the p