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Crews are trying to bore holes into a West Virginia coal mine. Theyre trying to vent poison gas, so they cant send rescue crews into search for four miners. They were in explosion Monday that killed 25 other people. NPRs Dianna Douglas is in Melville
Last year I showed these two slides so that demonstrate that the arctic ice cap, 去年我给各位展示了两个关于北极冰帽的演示, which for most of the last three million years has been the size of the lower 48 states, has shrunk by 40
This is Scientific America's 60-Second Science, I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. Its hot to research life in extreme environments. There are organisms that thrive in boiling hot thermal vents and in toxic stews. These extremophiles, as
AGRICULTURE REPORT - Carbon Trading: How the Chicago Climate Exchange WorksBy Mario Ritter Broadcast: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 I'm Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Agriculture
CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Hi, I'm Carl Azuz. You're tuned in to CNN Student News. Afghanistan, Iraq, D.C.: lot of ground to cover today. We start things off in West Virginia. First Up: Coal Mine Disaster AZUZ: Officials there are trying to
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Landfills produce methanewhich can be valuable as an energy source. But scientists haven't known why landfills make so much methane. The solid waste in
US stocks hit the 200-mark, reflecting sharp gains all day. University of Maryland Professor Peter Morici says the gains are due in large part to a rise in the service sector and news out of Japan that the central bank moved to lower interest rates t
The New York governors communications chief is resigning over the political scandal overshadowing the states top office. In a statement today Peter Hoffman says that given the recent developments, he had to quit. Governor David Paterson is under pres
Shock. That's how the Obama administration describes news that a US soldier in Afghanistan allegedly massacred 16 men, women and children in two villages over the weekend. The White House says a full investigation is underway. This as it works to kee
Arctic melt is economic time bomb The rapidly melting Arctic sea ice and permafrost is an economic time bomb likely to cost the world at least $60tn, say researchers who have started to calculate the financial consequences. 已开始计算财务后果的
Japan said Tuesday it had successfully extracted methane hydrate, known as fire ice, from its seabed, possibly unlocking many years' worth of gas for the resource-starved country. In what they are claiming as a world first, a consortium is drilling f
1. An administration official says testing will continue as BP and the government disagree over whether the new cap on the well should be removed. BP wants to keep the cap while administration officials say that cap should be removed. They guess meth
I am John Macintosh with the BBC news. Hello, the trading on China's stock market has been suspended for the second day this week after prices plunged by more than 7%. An automatic shutdown was triggered less than an hour after business opened, Steve
Scientists in Argentina may have just the answer to combat global warming. 阿根廷科学家或许找出了解决全球变暖问题的方法。 With cows being responsible for up to 25 percent of the methane gas released in the US each year, a group
A policy on eating insects is being formally considered by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Using insects instead of beef and mutton not only meets food supply brought by high growth of global population, but also reduces greenhouse ga
That's why when, in California, we try to deal with all the solar we've brought online 这就是为什么在加州,我们正在尝试太阳能的完全使用, we now get about 10 percent of electricity from solar 我们现在能够从太阳能获得
We all know plastic bags are bad for the environment. They litter the landscape and pose a threat to wildlife. 众所周知,塑料袋危害环境。乱丢塑料袋破坏自然景观,还对野生生物构成威胁。 Discarded plastic bags accumul
HOUSTON, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Coast Guard said on Tuesday that underwater inspections at the site of BP's 2010 rig explosion have failed to identify the sources of a persistent sheen on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile, it said th
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to join fellow foreign ministers from the eight-nation Arctic Council on Thursday in Greenland's capital, Nuuk, for a meeting on polar region issues, including the receding Arctic ice cap. The meeti