Its Thursday August 22nd, and today's edition of CNN Student News begins in Syria. A civil war has been ranging there for nearly two and a half years. This is President Bashar al-Assad. Hes been Syrias president since 2000. His family has been in pow

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2013年(八)月

When it comes to climate change, public opinion is near 50-50, but 97% of scientists who dedicated their lives to studying our climate said that is happening and it is happening because of human activities. Without the evidence, we have a warming ear

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Paris Conference to Discuss Climate Change, Rising Oceans Some of the world's leading experts on oceans and climate change are meeting in Paris this week to discuss why oceans are rising, and where to channel scarce research funds to study the pheno

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The ocean is our planet's life-support system, but it's getting clogged with trash. Discarded beverage bottles, plastic bags and cigarette butts kill countless seabirds, marine mammals and sea turtles each year. But each September, on the third Satu

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VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. The Environmental Film Festival in Washington, D.C., has been bringing movies to America's capital for seventeen years. This year, the twelve-day

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Study: Ocean Acidity Exceeds Natural Norms New research suggests an overload of carbon dioxide in the oceans is posing a serious threat to marine life, food security and tourism. While most CO2 emissions from automobiles, buildings and factories go i

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At some point we all have to memorize the names of the earth's oceans . But in reality all these waters are connected, so how do we know where one body begins and another ends. Just follow the trash, because the location of sea-ferrying garbage can b

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Passage Transcript i would like to tell you, a little bit about some things i like, and then a little bit about some things i don't like. first of all, i really enjoy exercising. some of my favorite types of exercises are swimming, especially in rive

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President Bush Discusses U.S. Ocean Action Plan THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, all. Thank you, Secretary Clough, for the introduction. And congratulations on the opening of the Sant Ocean Hall -- which, by the way, opens tomorrow morning at 11:00 a.m. Th

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Since the food crisis of a few years ago, much attention has been paid to improving agriculture and conserving the land. But land is not the only source of food. The oceans provide food and jobs for millions of people, yet very little is being done t

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Clothing Company Ties Sales to Ocean Cleanup Volunteers and company employees keep that promise by descending upon temporary garbage dumps that contain just about everything youd find in a typical landfill. But instead of the trash being properly dis

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Scientists and politicians have gathered in the Indonesian city of Manado for the World Ocean Conference. They are discussing the role of oceans in mitigating climate change and how climate change affects the world's seas, but their efforts are hamp

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Warmer Oceans Could Mean Smaller Fish Warmer oceans William DAndrea studies how Earths climate changes over time. In an article just published in the journal Geology, the associate professor at Columbia Universitys Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory ch

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: I say renewable energy and you probably think wind or maybe the sun. You might be able to put the ocean's waves on that list, too. The Department of Energy is experimenting with this idea. The department is spending $40 million t

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ELISE HU, HOST: The world's oceans are rising up about eight inches on average over the past century. The seas are rising more in some places than others. As NPR's Christopher Joyce reports, scientists are beginning to predict where the rise will be

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Let's look first. The fresh water that we depend on begins its life in the oceans. As the sun's rays beat down on the surface of the sea, they heat the water molecules until some evaporate. It's the start of an extraordinary journey. Here with water

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 06 June 2006 North Sea waves wash ashore as rain clouds cast their shadow over the beach front and dunes near Scheveningen, western Netherlands Some of the world's leading experts

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在没有看到Adam Green的照片时,他的嗓音让我觉得这个人没有40至少也30好几了,磁性的声音尽显成熟男性魅力。可是他的年龄和样貌却让我大跌眼镜(没有贬意),1981生,满头乱发,表情呆滞,那双大眼睛里透出些许灵气。让我不禁想到另一位音乐人en Kweller。提到Adam Gr

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Ocean Heat 海洋热量 Ya?l: I hear a lot about global warming, but how do scientists take the Earths temperature? Don: Great question. Most of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide ends up in the oceans.Thats because the

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Don: Hey, Yael, Have you heard? We've discovered two new oceans? Yael: Where? D: On Mars. Well, they aren't there any longer, but they were there a few billion years ago. Y: I thought scientists weren't sure if Mars had oceans or not. D: They weren't

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