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AGRICULTURE REPORT - Jojoba: Not Your Usual Oilseed CropBy Mario Ritter Broadcast: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:00:00 UTC I'm Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Jojoba plants We have a

Pesticide Warning

03 警惕杀虫剂的危害 DATE=2-20-01 TITLE=AGRICULTURE REPORT - (1)Pesticide Warning BYLINE=George Grow (Start at 1'00

科学美国人60秒 SSS Pesticide Additive Could Be One Culprit in Bee Deaths

Pesticide Additive Could Be One Culprit in Bee Deaths 农药添加剂是蜜蜂死亡的一大诱因 Springtime is flower season. And that includes some 90 million almond trees in California. It's the largest pollination event in the U.S.and beekeeper

【趣谈英语】咖啡因的那些事-Caffeine Is A Natural Pesticide

Pre-Listening Vocabulary caffeine: a drug found in some plants, including coffee seeds and tea leaves pesticide: a substance that keeps insects or harmful materials away from a plant alert: awake and paying attention ward off: to keep away something

国家地理-2008-07-26 ''环保''的高尔夫球场

Millions of Americans enjoy playing golf. But golf courses are not known to be environmentally friendly. They demand a lot of fresh water, fertilizers and herbicides to keep them looking green. Thats true of most golf courses. But lets look at one t

Italian Program Prepares Immigrants for Jobs as Beekeepers

A group in Italy is preparing immigrants, mostly from Africa, for jobs as beekeepers. The group then helps to set-up meetings between these migrants and honey producers who need employees. International aid groups say European Union (EU) efforts to r

SSS 2008-09-01

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute?. [Spray sound.] Killing bugs? No. [Spray sound.] Deodorizing the bathroom? No. [Spray sound.] Checking for explosives, yes. Because chemists at the University of Califor

美国科学家宣称转基因食品是安全的

AS IT IS 2016-05-21 US Scientists Say Genetically Engineered Foods Are Safe 美国科学家宣称转基因食品是安全的 American scientists announced this week that genetically engineered food is generally safe for humans and the environment. Th

VOA标准英语2012--Public Hearings on Popular Pesticide Spotlight Safety Concerns

Public Hearings on Popular Pesticide Spotlight Safety Concerns Every year, U.S. farmers apply more than 35 million kilograms of the pesticide atrazine on their fields of corn, sugarcane, sorghum and other crops. But a growing body of scientific evide

VOA标准英语2013--EU Hopes Pesticide Ban Will Halt Bee Decline

EU Hopes Pesticide Ban Will Halt Bee Decline The targeted farm chemicals, which will be banned for two years starting this December 1, belong to a class of insecticides called neonicotinoids. They are a type of insect nerve agent that has been widely

美国国家公共电台 NPR To Repel Ticks, Try Spraying Your Clothes With A Pesticide That Mimics Mums

DAVID GREENE, HOST: We have been reporting on the rise of some really nasty diseases caused by tick bites - everything from Lyme disease to Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Well, now a new study is shedding light on an old technique to repel ticks that

无人机将拿走1270亿美元的就业岗位?

Google and Amazon were quick to put drones to use delivering orders. 谷歌和亚马逊已经开始用无人机送货，反应神速。 But new research suggests delivery is just one small way drones are going to replace humans. The tiny airborne ves

Girl ends life to donate eyes to dad

Girl ends life to donate eyes to dad NADIA: For days, Mumpy would listen quietly as the elders discussed how only an eye surgery could save her father's vision and a kidney transplant her brother's life. But both surgeries were beyond the family's me

亚马逊测试无人机送货

NEW YORK - Amazon.com is working on a way to get customers their goods in 30 minutes or less by drone. The world's largest e-commerce company said it's working on the so-called Prime Air unmanned aircraft project in its research and development labs.

年轻人更容易倾向自杀

Suicide is the leading cause of death for Chinese people aged 15 to 34, and the fifth biggest killer - after cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory disease and accidental death - among all age groups, a report by the Chinese Association for Ment

转基因先锋获得世界粮食奖

It's perhaps the most controversial pick in the history of a respected award. Three pioneers in the science of genetically modified crops are receiving this year's prestigious World Food Prize, Thursday, Oct. 17 in Iowa. According to the prize citati

2020年无人机会抢走哪些工作

Google and Amazon were quick to put drones to use delivering orders. 谷歌和亚马逊已经开始用无人机送货，反应神速。 But new research suggests delivery is just one small way drones are going to replace humans. The tiny airborne ves

农业部长谈中国食品安全问题

Han Changfu said that food security is always a major issue in China, a country with a population of 1.3 billion people. He pledged that authorities will keep the zero-tolerance attitude towards food security issues and will spare no efforts to solve

老外告诉你：什么时候该“被动”

在讲解被动态的适用范围之前，我们先来复习一下被动态的结构：be+done，即be动词体现时态再加上被执行动作的过去分词。现在，小编分别举一个主动句和一个被动句，你们感受一下主动句和

经济学人:全球自杀率下降的背后(3)

Efforts to curb access to the means to kill oneself can help, too. 限制自杀途径也能有所帮助。 Suicide is surprisingly impulsive. 自杀通常都是意料之外的冲动所致。 A study of young Chinese women who had tried to kill themse