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Unit 3 Travel journal Reading JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG PART 1 THE DRMAM AND THE PLAN My name is Wang Kun.Ever since middle school,my sister Wang Wer and have dreamed about taking a gerat bike trip.Two years ago she bought an expensive mountain bike an
By VOA News 15 January 2008 A group of climate researchers says there is evidence that global warming is causing the Antarctic ice cap to melt more quickly than it did 10 years ago. The scientists said Monday they used satellite data to monitor the A
This, Jakobshavn Isbrae, is the fastest flowing glacier on our planet, moving as much as 14 meters a day. As it advances, it destroys everything in its path, even cutting its way through Greenland's great mountain ranges on its drive downwards toward
ENVIRONMENT REPORT -June 14, 2002: Global Warming Threatens Himalayas By Cynthia Kirk Mount Everest This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. A new report says the Himalayan mountains of sou
By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 05 August 2007 An aerial view of the Siachen Glacier, northwest of Jammu, India U.S. scientists say clouds of man-made haze that blanket southern and eastern Asia are helping accelerate the melting of the Himalayan glaciers.
Icelands Eyjafjallaj?kull Volcano sent a plume of ash and steam across the North Atlantic, 15 Apr 2010 A slowly spreading cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland is covering parts of Europe, shutting down air travel and stranding tens of thousands of pass
美联社,新闻一分钟,Iraqi,parliament,standoff,1:In another dramatic last-minute standoff, Iraqi leaders put off a vote on a draft constitution late Monday, adjourn ing parliament at a midnight deadline in a bid for more time to win over the Sunni
This is AP News Minute. Police say a woman opened fire at YouTube headquarters, and wounded four people in a shooting that promoted panic as workers hid and tried to flee. Officials say the unidentified woman died of a self-inflicted gunshot. Preside
VOICE ONE: I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we travel south to one of the coldest, windiest and least populated places in the world, Antarctica. The word Antarctica comes from a Greek
A massive ice island has broken off the coast of Greenland. Heat waves, droughts and floods have been wreaking havoc across the globe in recent weeks, and now scientists say a 250 square kilometer island of ice has broken off from a glacier in Greenl
Scientists to Drill Huge Hole in Antarctic Ice Antarctica is the largest reservoir of glacial ice on the planet. An expedition of international scientists is headed to the frozen continent to study why its glaciers are retreating so fast. What they f
From their origins of melting glacier in the high Himalayas, thewaters of Ganges descend more than 12,000 feet, carving their way throughprecipitous gorges. There is half a mile drop. Although the Ganges is steepedin history and religious tradition,
The House easily passed a bi-partisan budget agreement that will finance the government the next years in cut deficit by 23 billion dollars over the next decade. NPRs Ailsa Chang reports the measure gets the full backing of House leaders despite hars
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Ten years ago, Al Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, argued forcefully that climate change should be a mainstream concern. The world seemed to hear that argument, though the current U.S. administration appears to have som
And I sound like a bit of a fraud standing here now with a sort of belly. 我听上去就像 无助的站在那儿朝旷野呼唤的人。 I've put on 30 pounds in the last three weeks. 在过去三周,我已增重30磅。 Being that hungry has lef
Scott and his final team of five arrived at the South Pole in 1912 January to find they had been beaten to it by a Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen, 1912年一月,斯科特和他的五人小分队 到达了南极点。但不巧,他们发现由挪
Scott and his final team of five arrived at the South Pole in 1912 January to find they had been beaten to it by a Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen, 1912年一月,斯科特和他的五人小分队 到达了南极点。但不巧,他们发现由挪
Study: Warm Ocean Speeds Antarctic Melting The study's lead author, Hamish Pritchard, is a glaciologist with the British Antarctic Survey. In 1993, and again in 2003, he observed the collapse of two ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula. He says the
1. Parts of Texas are under icy glacier and at the same time most of Virginia is experiencing storm that has already brought rains, sleets, snows and freezing rain. A mix of freezing rains, sleets and snows stretched from the mid-Atlanta through sout
Women are most affected by climate change and should be included in environment talks Rosanne Skirble | Washington, DC 03 December 2009 Women in a flood-prone community in Gaibandha, Bangladesh, gather once a week to share ideas about how to adapt to