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U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry sees exporting technologies like carbon capture utilization, so-called clean coal technology, to ensure American energy security. In an interview with VOA Contributor Greta Van Susteren, Perry called battery developme

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As Trial Begins In Charlottesville Protest Death, Community Reflects RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The man accused of ramming his car through a crowd of protesters at a white supremacist rally goes on trial this week in Charlottesville, Va. Jury selection sta

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It has done me good,because of the color of the wheat fields．Go and look again at the roses．You will understand now that yours is unique in all the world． 驯服对我是有好处的因为麦田的颜色。再回头看那些玫瑰花吧！到时你

科学美国人60秒 SSS Falcons Patrol Fruit Fields for Pesky Invasive Birds

Washington state is the countrys largest producer of cherries and blueberries. The states wine industry is second only to Californias in value. But one non-native, nuisance bird is wreaking havoc. [Sound of starling call.] The European starling was b

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One of the concerns about working with genetically modified crops has been that vegetation growing in agricultural fields might escape out into the world. Now, for the first time in the U.S., researchers report a large population of GM crops beyond t

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Wayward Weedkiller Divides Farm Communities, Harms Wildlife

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This summer in Arkansas, a weed-killing chemical called dicamba drifted across the landscape and damaged millions of acres of crops. And the injury went deeper. It split rural communities. It destroyed friends and took a toll on th

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VOA慢速英语2014 AS IT IS 2014-03-02 Building a Windbreak to Protect Crops 建设防风保护农作物

Building a Windbreak to Protect Crops建设防风保护农作物 Welcome to As It Is, from VOA Learning English. Im Karen Leggett in Washington. Thanks for joining us. 欢迎光临，As It Is美国之音学英语。我是Karen Leggett在华盛顿。感

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By Mil Arcega Washington 25 May 2007 Technology and high gasoline prices are helping to coax hard-to-extract oil from California's oil fields. Production at some of the state's older oil fields is expected to dry up in about 25 years, but Chevron say

VOA标准英语2008年-Cambodian Killing Fields Survivor Tells His Sto

Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Economic and Social Council Sichan Siv has written a new book, called Golden Bones, that tells how he survived the Khmer Rouge terror in his native land and came to prosper in the United States. As VOA's Greg Flaku

VOA标准英语2008年-US Farm Belt Faces Economic Disaster From Flood

By Greg Flakus Council Bluffs, Iowa 20 June 2008 Surging water is moving down the Mississippi river devastating towns and farmland along the way. The river has topped close to a dozen levees flooding towns in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri and resident

VOA标准英语2012--Corn Harvest Comes Early for Midwest Farmers

Corn Harvest Comes Early for Midwest Farmers The only thing farmer Bruce Nation sees in his cornfields outside Taylorville, Illinois, is heartache. This stuff is depressing here. This is hard to look at for me, he said. Most of the ears of corn that

VOA标准英语2012--Falling Oil Prices Prompt Russian Economic Fears

Falling Oil Prices Prompt Russian Economic Fears Khanty-Mansiysk in Siberia - home to around 70 percent of Russias developed oil fields and the source of much of the countrys wealth. Russia produces more than 10 million barrels of oil per day - makin

VOA标准英语2011--Scientists Point to Possible Health Effe

Scientists Point to Possible Health Effects of Cell Phones This past May, in a major policy shift, the World Health Organization said electromagnetic fields produced by mobile phones are possibly carcinogenic. Although the International Association f

VOA标准英语2014--Seizure of Oilfields Fuels Kurd Statehood Dream

Seizure of Oilfields Fuels Kurd Statehood Dream LONDON Along the desert horizon around Kirkuk, the bright flares from oil wells puncture the summer haze. An estimated 4 percent of known global oil reserves lie beneath these sands. It is a prize that

美国国家公共电台 NPR In South Texas, Fair Wages Elude Farmworkers, 50 Years After Historic Strike

In South Texas, Fair Wages Elude Farmworkers, 50 Years After Historic Strike DAVID GREENE, HOST: Fifty years ago this summer, farmworkers in South Texas walked off the fields to protest poor wages and appalling working conditions. They marched 400 mi

美国国家公共电台 NPR What Will Persuade Rice Farmers In Punjab To Stop Setting Fires In Their Fields?

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Northern India has some of the worst air quality in the world. This month, pollution in the capital, New Delhi, hit 20 times what the World Health Organization considers safe. Make a list of the world's 10 most polluted cities an

美国国家公共电台 NPR Many California Farmworkers Forced To Stay Behind During The Wildfires

Many California Farmworkers Forced To Stay Behind During The Wildfires SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Woolsey Fire in Southern California has been contained, but it destroyed almost 1,500 structures across Los Angeles and Ventura counties. And while some res

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At first, the Europeans relied heavily on local food supply by native people. But as they settled in, their farming practices began to shape the landscape of North America. The plow allowed them to farm larger areas of land, helping to feed the expan

学个词Learn a Word 第1459课 parity

今天我们要学的词是parity。Parity, 名词，意思是平等，公平。最近的一项研究发现，全球从政的女性比例太低，但是北欧国家例外。 A new report finds Nordic countries essentially enjoy gender parity in polit