全球气候峰会将至 巴黎加强戒备 Four thousand seven hundred meters above sea level lies the Tibetan Plateau, known as the roof of the world. Its glaciers are the source of many of Asias most important rivers. 位于青藏高原海平面以上

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2015年11月

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

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Holy cow ! You have to take a look at this picture. Yeah, this bovine has given birth to not one, but four calves. I guess that will really earn her the world heifer. They got us thinking how common is this? Of course, we crunch the numbers and we fo

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(39) / 评论(0) 分类 万花筒2012年

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

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Climate Change May Actually Help Penguins 气候变暖可能有助于企鹅生存 Its time to go again to the A Moment of Science mailbag. A listener writes: Dear A Moment of Science,I know that climate change is making life difficult for polar bears

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(100) / 评论(0) 分类 初学者听力文摘精选

Lesson 33 The Land in the Sky 第33课 天空之国 The lowest country in Europe is Holland. 欧洲地势最低的国家是荷兰。 The highest country in Europe is the land of the Swiss people, called Switzerland. 欧洲地势最高的国家是瑞士

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Moving glaciers can cause erosion on mountains, but the coldest glaciers, frozen in place, protect mountains and allow them to grow taller. Cynthia Graber reports 冰川移动会侵蚀山地(冰川移动通常会导致出现角峰和冰斗谷),但

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 60秒科学

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

发表于:2019-01-04 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 健康与环境

US Park Service Director: A Dream Job 美国公园管理局主任:梦想中的工作 More than 300 million people from around the world visit Americas national parks each year. 每年有超过3亿来自世界各地的人访问美国国家公园。 Th

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(七)月

By all means, move at a glacial pace, you know how that thrills me. 语音讲解: 单词发音 glacial /?ɡle??l/ pace /pe?s/ thrill /r?l/ 词间连读 by all means /ba?j??lmi?nz/ move at a /mu?v?t?/ 词汇讲解 1. by all means 一定 无论如何

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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

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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

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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

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【NPR边听边练】致力于提供新鲜有趣、饶有意味的时讯资料,致力于通过精听的方式促进听力提高,致力于不断开阔眼界和深入了解美国观点。 精听建议: 先完整地把一条新闻听一到三遍,争

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As five European foreign ministers meet in Copenhagen to prepare for an aggreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, scientists in Greenland are warning about accelerated glacier melts. Several years ago, scientists reported that the Helheim Glacier, su

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2009年

Brother said, Boy, I had killer foot cramps last night. My feet curled up so much that I couldn't even stand. And massaging them didn't help a bit. Sister said, You should drink a small glass of salt water. That works great for me. In fact, it's like

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Soot was cause for a different concern in another recent study. Scientists with the American space agency, NASA, suggest it as a major cause of global warming. The study says the problem is how soot interacts with snow and ice. Snow and ice have high

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What you often get with crevasses is just a thin covering of compacted snow. Uh, its called a snow bridge. And you can see there just where one has collapsed. And this is why they are so dangerous. You dont know when you are on one, and you dont know

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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

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(145) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2013(十二月)

At Least One-Third of Himalayan Ice to Disappear by 2100 At least one-third of the ice in the Himalayan Mountains will disappear by the end of this century because of rising temperatures, scientists said this week. This will threaten river flows that

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