The head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, has launched the formal process to review and challenge mainstream climate science. The critique will reportedly be modeled on how the U.S. military identifies battlefield vulnerabilities

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1. effect,在段中表示影响,作用。 eg:The whole effect is cool, light, and airy. 整体印象是凉爽、明亮和通风。 2. man-made,人工的,人造的;在段中man-made表示人为的。 eg:Man-made and natural disasters have disr

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JUDY WOODRUFF: The Great Barrier Reef along the coast of Australia is considered one of the greatest natural wonders of the world. It actually consists of more than 2,900 smaller reefs and 900 islands and countless species of fish. But its health and

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JEFFREY BROWN: There's another big meeting taking place in Washington this week. Native populations from around the U.S. convened at a conference on the impacts of climate change. Hari Sreenivasan has that story. HARI SREENIVASAN: Our series on Copin

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Stopping Debt Payments Could Worsen Venezuela's Crisis Venezuela is struggling to pay back an estimated $150 billion in debt. 委内瑞拉正在竭力偿还大约1500亿美元的债务。 The countrys financial crisis only makes life worse for people

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英国一家游戏开发公司本周一推出了一款以气候变化为主题的电脑游戏试用版,让每个玩家都能够参与到拯救世界的行动中。据介绍,这款游戏名为世界的命运,每个玩家都是国际环境组织的

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AS IT IS 2016-05-04 Climate Change Could Make Parts of Middle East Unlivable 气候变化或使中东部分地区不适宜于居住 Climate change may make parts of the Middle East too hot for human beings, according to a new study. Researchers from

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Climate Change Talks Move Beyond Deadline 气候变化谈判已过 最后期限 Leaders in Paris negotiating a climate change agreement missed their deadline Friday. Representatives from 195 countries have spent two weeks in Paris trying to reach agr

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AS IT IS 2015-12-01 World Leaders Seek Climate Change Agreement 各国领导人寻求达成气候变化协议 Representatives from more than 150 countries are meeting in Paris to try to reach an agreement on climate change. The world leaders are deba

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巴黎峰会希望确定全球减排机制 It's known as the roof of the world, four thousand seven hundred meters above sea level lies the Tibetan Plateau. Its glaciers are the source of many of Asias most important rivers. 海拔7400米的青藏高原

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克里警告全球气候变化 JAKARTA The United States and China say they recognize the need for urgent action to address the twin challenges of climate change and the air pollution caused by burning fossil fuels. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry

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Science and Technology Peat bogs and climate change Wet, wet, wet 科技 泥炭沼泽及气候变化 湿!湿!湿! Forests are not the only habitat whose conservation matters to the climate 森林并不是唯一事关气候保护的栖息地 RUS

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GWEN IFILL: The climate talks over the next two weeks are expected to become a turning point in the global debate over addressing the causes of a rapidly warming planet. HARI SREENIVASAN: Joining me now for further analysis of the climate change summ

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JUDY WOODRUFF:Finally tonight, what's behind the long struggle to reach a new international agreement on reducing greenhouse gases? Margaret Warner has our update. MARGARET WARNER:It's been nearly 15 years since leaders from 37 industrialized countri

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大多数美国人密切关注乌克兰的危机 WASHINGTON, March 11 (Xinhua) -- More than two-thirds of Americans are paying close attention to Russia's involvement in the situation in Crimea of Ukraine, a Gallup poll released Tuesday showed. Sixty

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The embattled coal industry is facing a fresh onslaught as rich nations consider a bold plan to scale back the billions of dollars of support they pour into coal power plants worldwide. 问题缠身的煤炭产业正面临新一轮沉重打击,原因

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Located on the Svalbard Islands in the Arctic, the Global Seed Vault is home to millions of seeds. The facility is surrounded by permafrost and is naturally cooled to around -3 degrees Celsius. And the main vault is cooled even further to -18 degrees

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世行公布最新"气候变化行动计划" Syrian rebel forces have pushed militants of the Islamic state group out of astrategic town in northern Syria after days of heavy fighting. The town of al-Rai in Aleppo province has been a stronghold f

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China has recently submitted a post-2020 climate change pledge to the United Nations, promising that compared with 2005, China will cut its CO2 output per unit of GDP by between 60 and 65 percent by 2030. Zou Ji, the deputy director at the National C

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日前,中美两国发表《气候变化联合声明》,重申坚信气候变化是人类面临的最重大挑战之一,就推动全球经济向低碳转型做出切实行动。 请看《中国日报》报道: China plans to launch a national

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