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8 Volcanic Eruption In north-west Cameroon in August 1986， there was a volcanic eruption which devastated the area． At least 1，200 people were killed and many were left seriously ill with burns and respiratory infections． Nobody could escape b

US Space Agency Returns to Mars with InSight Lander

The American space agencys lander InSight is to arrive on Mars Monday. The event will mark the space agencys return to the planet. Unlike NASAs Curiosity rover, which arrived in 2012, InSight will not move across the planets surface. Instead it will

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Since early times, people have been fascinated with the idea of life existing somewhere else besides earth. Until recently, scientists believed that life on other planets was just a hopeful dream. But now they are beginning to locate places where lif

背诵为王 第 四 册 第 19 课

Lesson19 The Dead Sea Throughout history people all over the world have gone to special places where mineral-rich hot springs flow from beneath the earth@s surface. Countries with much volcanic activity such as Japan have many such hot springs and ha

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-06-13

Virgin will resume limited services from Melbourne, Tasmania and New Zealand in about half an hours time with Qantas is expected to recommence its flights from 10:00 this morning. Jetstar also hopes to get some of its planes back in the air this morn

AP美联社一分钟新闻(2010-04-26)

1. The Coast Guard says an oil platform that suffered a massive explosion two days ago has sunk in the Gulf of Mexico. It's been burning since the explosion. And officials say it went down this afternoon. Meantime, the search continues for 11 workers

AP美联社一分钟新闻(2010-04-23)

1. Limited flights are resuming at certain airports in Europe, five days after a volcanic ash cloud forced planes to remain on the ground. Only a few flights are being allowed in and out of France today. And European officials say it will take severa

VOA慢速英语2010-Economics Report - Adding Up the Costs of

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Air traffic over much of Europe came to a halt for six days because of the huge cloud of ash from a volcano in Iceland. Now the economic costs are still being counted as airlines try to get everyone t

走遍全世界65: Spotlight on Hawaii

For most of us, Hawaii begins to weave her spell with some little glimmer of awareness. Golden beaches and golden people. Sun, sand, sea, and surf... And somewhere between the blue skies and the palm trees... we're hooked. 对于大部分人来说，那

英文杂志-Magazine：Goodbye Great Auk

Goodbye Great Aukby John KutiIn those days, people still lived on the islands of Saint Kilda. Two men from the village went out on the rock. They found a big strange bird. It was sleeping. They decided to bring it home to the village. Far out into th

VOA慢速英语2018 夏威夷或有重大火山喷发

Scientists: Major Volcanic Burst Possible in Hawaii Hawaiis Kilauea volcano could soon send huge rocks and ash shooting out of its summit crater. The last time this happened was almost 100 years ago. 夏威夷基拉韦厄火山很快就有巨石和火山

AP美联社一分钟新闻(2010-04-20)

A drifting volcanic ash flew from Iceland is keeping nearly 2/3 of Europe's commercial flights grounded.It's expensive.The industry is estimated that the volcano was costing the airlines at least 200 million dollars a day. The Security and Exchange C

VOA标准英语2010-Disrupted Air Travel in Northern Europe f

Iceland's volcano erupted Wednesday and has since been spewing ash several miles into the air. The ash clouds include particles of rock, glass and sand that can get into an aircraft's engine and cause it to stall. Selah Hennessy | London 17 April 201

美国有线新闻 CNN 什么是vog?

Officials in Hawaii say 35 buildings, including at least 26 homes, have been destroyed in the latest eruption of the Kilauea volcano. New fissures have formed in the ground, and though volcanic activity in these cracks slow down yesterday, scientists

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The secret of the diamond lies in the carbon bond. Carbon is one of the most plentiful substances known to science. We find carbon in plants, animals and our bodies. Carbon everywhere. And yet diamonds are some of the rarest, most beautiful of all su

英语听力：自然百科 猛犸山

Every day people come to soak in Hot Creek, a place to rest, created by geologic unrest. Sudden geyser eruptions, driven by heat from magma below the Earth surface, can change water temperatures so fast that going into the water is not recommended. B

新西兰英语 79 New Geothermal Power Station

Today a new geo-thermal power station was opened in Kawerau, in the eastern Bay of Plenty. Geo means earth and therm means heat. The power station uses hot steam from the earth. Like the geo-thermal power station at Wairakei, which opened in the 1950

VOA常速英语2008年-Mercury Seen in New Light

By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 15 February 2008 Scientists have started analyzing data and images acquired when the Messenger space probe passed within 200 kilometers of the planet Mercury last month. It was the first flyby of the solar system's inner-

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We keep pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and the earth keeps warming. Climate scientists have predicted that the consequences of unchecked warming could result in everything from catastrophic flooding to larger and more deadly hurricanes. S

万物简史 第327期:美丽而危险(10)

Probably you would have swarms of earthquakes and some surface uplift and 很可能是一系列地震，有的地面会隆起， possibly some changes in the patterns of behavior of the geysers and steam vents, but nobody really knows. 间歇泉和喷气