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Mount Everest looms in the distance. Its snow and ice-capped peak gleams in the sunshine. The Himalayan glacier is a fragile ecosystem, which environmentalists warn could soon disappear. Greenpeace says that as global warning increases temperatures a
Saul Bellow describes his impressions of the seemingly endless cornfields of Illinois. 索尔·贝娄描述了自己对伊利诺伊看似无边无际的玉米地的印象。 ILLINOIS JOURNEY Saul Bell
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Bring something warm, even sunny days can be really cold up here. We are over 11,000 feet above sea level. The air is thin, anything can happen on the Jungfraujoch. People are skiing in August, I saw
Ukraine has seen a lot of changes in a short amount of time. It's divided some Ukrainians want closer ties with the European Union. Some like its ousted president want closer ties with Russia. Ukraine's parliament voted out president Viktor Yanukovyc
Lesson 107 Can We Glide Now? 我们能滑行吗? Words: gigantic adj. 巨大的 gilding n. 贴金箔,镀金 girder n. 大梁(钢架结构) girdle n. 腰带,围绕物 gust n. 要旨 glacial adj. 冰的,冰河的 glaciated adj. 冻结成冰的 glacier n. 冰河 glamorous adj. 迷人的
Hi everybody. Earlier this summer, Michelle, Malia, Sasha and I headed westto the national parks at Carlsbad Caverns and Yosemite. 嗨,大家。今年夏初,米歇尔、马利亚、莎莎和我去了西部的卡尔斯巴德洞窟国家公园和优诗
EXPLORATIONS - The Indiana Dunes: Beautiful Sand Hills and Wildlife in America's Midwest By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And
Scientists in Iceland say the volcano that has been spewing out massive plumes of ash over much of Europe appears to be calming down. Last month, the volcanic ash cloud forced the closure of much of Europe's air space and the cancellation of thousand
Flags are lower and security is heightened at U.S. installations around the world in response to yesterday's anti-American unrest in Egypt and Libya. A violent protest against obscured anti-Islamic film in the U.S. erupted first at the U.S. Embassy i
Pictures Connect People for Earth Day 2013 From VOA Learning English, welcome to This Is America. I'm Kelly Jean Kelly. And I'm Mario Ritter. April twenty-second is Earth Day. Former United States Senator Gaylord Nelson started the observance in nine
US Park Service Director: A Dream Job 美国公园管理局主任:梦想中的工作 More than 300 million people from around the world visit Americas national parks each year. 每年有超过3亿来自世界各地的人访问美国国家公园。 Th
Passengers take a rest at Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport, outside Paris, as hundreds of commercial flights across northern Europe are canceled by a drifting plume of volcanic ash originating from Iceland, 16 Apr 2010 A huge cloud of volcanic ash fr
[00:02]SA:Oh, my God. [00:04]That was a close shave, wasn't it? [00:06]SB:Smell ice, can ya? Bleeding Christ! [00:13]Mh:Note the time and enter it in the log. [00:21]C:What was that, Mr. Murdoch? [00:23]M:An iceberg, sir. [00:25]I put her h
I was hoping this is gonna be a good place to shelter. But its not. Shes gonna act like a wind funnel. I need to think again and get out of here pretty fast now. As it grows darker, a storm once again is moving in. Ive got minutes before its gonna hi
What you often get with crevasses is just a thin covering of compacted snow. Uh, its called a snow bridge. And you can see there just where one has collapsed. And this is why they are so dangerous. You dont know when you are on one, and you dont know
13. Yeah, look at this. Look, see all of these for the holes. Thats what I'm talking about. The last volcanic eruption was in 2004, but some of these lava fields are ancient, more than 7,000 years old, and they hold a special place in Icelandic folkl
By Kane Farabaugh Kangerlussuak, Greenland 12 July 2007 The former Danish colony of Greenland attained home rule in 1979. Since it began governing itself, with support from the Danish government, in 1981, Greenland has made an effort to modernize its
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At Least One-Third of Himalayan Ice to Disappear by 2100 At least one-third of the ice in the Himalayan Mountains will disappear by the end of this century because of rising temperatures, scientists said this week. This will threaten river flows that