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In the northwestern United States, the city of Seattle requires its residents to separate food waste from the rest of their trash. The food gets recycled into compost for lawns, gardens and, soon, into electricity. 美国西北地区的西雅图市要求
By Jeff Swicord Washington 18 May 2007 Entrance to mine rescue chamber It is being called revolutionary in the field of mine safety. A West Virginia company has unveiled a new piece of technology that the company says could prevent most deaths from m
By Faiza Elmasry Milwaukee, Wisconsin 06 November 2007 An organic farm known as Growing Power and its owner, a former basketball player are on a mission. Over the past 15 years, Will Allen has developed what he calls an ecologically sound urban farm
Technology Report - California Seeks China's Help in Going Green 科技报道 - 加州在绿色能源方面寻求中国帮助 From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。 California Govern
Scientists Say Climate Change Is Real and Human-Caused 科学家称气候变化是人类活动所造成 From VOA Learning English, this is Science in the News. Im Katherine Cole. And Im Christopher Cruise. Today we tell about a United Nations report
By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 15 May 2008 Growing enough food to alleviate shortages in African countries is not easy, but an agro-ecologist in Ethiopia thinks he has the answer: bio-farming. The technique uses animal waste products to produce energy
The arrival of oil-tainted waste to federally approved landfills across the Gulf coast is raising concerns are raised about the potential impact on the environment and public health An estimated 700 million liters of oil have spilled into the Gulf of
In the northwestern United States, the city of Seattle requires its residents to separate food waste from the rest of their trash. The food gets recycled into compost for lawns, gardens and, soon, into electricity. Every day, at Cedar Grove Compostin
Scientists: Save More Than Forests 科学家:拯救全球气候 不只是保护森林 Protecting the worlds forests is promoted as a way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Forests store a lot of carbon in both trees and soil, which helps mitigate
Global Diets Affect Climate 全球饮食影响气候 A new study says the growing popularity of the Western diet could help worsen climate change. As more people make meat a principle part of their diet, the authors say it will be very difficult to r
拉脱维亚垃圾处理厂助益番茄农场 Latvian consumers who enjoy these yellow tomatoes may not even know that they are locally grown, let alone that they grew with the help of their own garbage. 喜爱这些黄色西红柿的拉脱维亚消费
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There's only so much space on a spacecraft, which means limited space for food and water. American crews on the International Space Station recycle their own sweat and urine to produce fresh drinking water - bottoms up. Now new res
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: India's largest city has banned plastic bags and packaging. In India, people actually produce only a tenth of the plastic waste that Americans do. The problem is where it ends up, as NPR's Lauren Frayer reports from Mumbai. (SOUN
The by-product of billions of years of production from the chemical smog factory in the upper atmosphere, the grains in Titan's dunes may literally fall from the sky. Like a rain of flash-frozen coffee grounds, they are swept by the wind into deep pi
The Prime Meridian(本初子午线) here is the longitude, the mark on the ground, from which all great voyages are measured. This is the view back to our remarkable home planet/ that the first human out here can look forward to, a distant blue dot l
It's very hard to tell. We've just hit the water. It's very hard to tell what altitude we're at. We've crashed the airplane at 930 feet. It seems clear that flying into that methane caused enough confusion in the instruments and with Thomas and he en
By Jessica Berman Washington 19 March 2008 For the first time ever, astronomers using the Hubble space telescope have discovered the presence of the organic molecule methane in the atmosphere around a planet outside our solar system. While astronomer
No planet beats Saturn for jaw-dropping beauty. Saturn is the most photogenic planet in all the solar system. Some of the pictures are to die for. But the postcards only tell part of the story. Beauty is only skin deep. It really is rolling and seeth
By Victor Beattie Washington 04 January 2006 Family members react to the news of only one survivor of the 13 trapped miners, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2006 Nearly two days after an explosion trapped 13 men i
A third explosion happened this afternoon, two days after a second explosion. By Wednesday evening, police said that all miners now must be dead. Probably they became unconscious first through carbon monoxide poisoning and would have felt nothing. It