VOA慢速英语2009年-Agriculture Report - How a Hoop House

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Today we discuss the greenhouse effect. Farmers and gardeners have long used greenhouses to extend the growing season in cold weather. Now, hoop houses are gaining popularity. Hoop houses are someti

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Cloned dairy cows at a farm in Maryland The United States government has decided that food from cloned cattle, pigs and goats is safe to eat. The Food and Drug Administration also says it found no

VOA慢速英语2012 Agriculture Report - New Findings About Loss of Bees

Agriculture Report - New Findings About Loss of Bees This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Bees add an estimated eighteen billion dollars a year to the value of American crops. They pollinate flowers that become fruits, nuts and vegetab

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Controlling Fruit Flies in Hawaii

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Controlling Fruit Flies in Hawaii By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Fruit flies can damage fo

VOA慢速英语-Agriculture Report - Finding the Biological Roots of

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A farmer in his maize field near Arusha, Tanzania The maize streak virus causes one of the most destructive crop diseases in Africa. Not only is it economically damaging, it can also threaten food

VOA慢速英语2010年-Agriculture Report - Phone Call About

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Advice on how much fertilizer to use will soon be just a phone call away for rice farmers in the Philippines. The Philippine Department of Agriculture and the International Rice Research Institute p

VOA慢速英语2010年-Agriculture Report - A Chicken in Ever

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Chicken feathers are useful, and not just to a chicken. Some go into pillows, coats and other products. But countless chicken feathers go to waste. In the United States, billions of chickens are pro

VOA标准英语2010年-Honeybees Still Disappearing in the US

Honeybees, which are very important to agriculture, continue to disappear at alarming rates in the United States. And the cause of this disappearance is still elusive. While at least one recent study seems to point to pesticides as the problem, the U

Innovation key to NE industry: state councilor

HARBIN, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong has called for greater technological innovation to rejuvenate traditional industrial bases in northeast provinces. Northeastern industry rejuvenation has entered a crucial stage, and tech

AGRICULTURE REPORT - World Food Prize Winners

AGRICULTURE REPORT - World Food Prize Winners By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Scientists from China and Sierra L

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Biological Controls, Part 1

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Biological Controls, Part 1 By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Biological controls are living

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Watermelon Studies

AGRICULTURE REPORT – July 23, 2002: Watermelon Studies By George Grow This is the VOA Special English AGRICULTURE REPORT. Watermelon is popular in the United States. Many people enjoy eating it on a

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Corn, Part 2

AGRICULTURE REPORT — December 3, 2002: Corn, Part 2 By Mario Ritter This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Last week, we told about the use of corn to feed cows in the cattle industry.

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Scientists Complete a Genetic Map of Ri

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Scientists Complete a Genetic Map of Rice By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 I'm Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Scientists now kno

VOA慢速英语2010年-Agriculture Report - New Alliance to S

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Experts say that agriculture provides fourteen percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions each year. The gases released include carbon dioxide, a major cause of global warming. Twenty-one natio

VOA标准英语2010年-Agriculture Seeks Bigger Role in Clima

When the world's biggest polluters gathered this past December at the U.N. Climate Summit in Copenhagen, they managed to forge a non-binding agreement that could help put the brakes on global warming. The 12-paragraph document outlines a way to move

2013年波兰建筑市场萎缩

WARSAW, April 16 (Xinhua) -- The value of the Polish construction market will shrink over 2 percent in 2013, the PMR research firm said on Tuesday. According to local media reports, the researcher predicts that 2013 will be marked by further depressi

VOA标准英语2011--Nicotine Enhances Effects of Cocaine

Nicotine Enhances Effects of Cocaine A new study from Columbia University highlights the role of tobacco in cocaine addiction. The research indicates that nicotine may be a key gateway drug in a biological as well as a social context. Dr. Amir Levine

【英音模仿秀】致命炭疽

模仿文本： Anthrax is a potentially deadly disease that caused by a bacteria. Occasionally it is found in nature but the strain found in the letters is the aim strain developed by the USmilitary after the World War II to research biological weap

我国首座国家基因库在深圳启动试运行

The first national gene bank, built by China's gene research giant BGI, started trial operation last Saturday in Shenzhen. 我国首个国家级基因库上周六在深圳投入试运行。该基因库由国内基因研究巨头华大基因建设。