波兰工程师研发空气净化设备

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. From Asia to Europe to North America, poor air quality is making people sick and, in some cases, killing them at an early age. Air pollution causes six million premature deaths every yea

SSS 2011-09-28

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Amy Kraft. Got a minute? Out of control drivers aren't the only thing city cyclists have to worry about. New research suggests that cyclists are at increased risk of lung damage because of soot. A

SSS 2009-01-26

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. There's a huge, gunky brown cloud that lingers over south Asia and the Indian Ocean each winter. Its been known to cause respiratory diseases and even

202 Useful Exercises for IELTS Side2-01-AudioTrack01

Narrator: Exercise 3.9. Lecture 3: Electric cars? Solar-powered buses? When most people imagine solutions to the problems of city air pollution they probably think of electricity and solar power. But the problem with an electric car is that the elect

Life in the Freezer 冰雪童话 - 9

The male usually leads. If the female is sufficiently impressed, the pair seal their relationship with a vocal duet . King Penguin rookeries are very busy places. Every morning at about 6:00, the adul

NPR 2009-06-04

President Obama is spending the night in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia after a day of meeting there with King Abdullah. Tomorrow, the president heads to Cairo for the most important speech of his trip. NPR's Don Gonyea reports. The speech will be delivered b

科学家宣布地质纪元进入“人类世”

The 11,700-year-old Holocene epoch is over. We're now living in the Anthropocene epoch. 长达11700年的全新世结束啦。我们如今正生活在人类世纪元。 编者注：全新世（Holocene Epoch），是最年轻的地质年代，它与更

VOA标准英语2011--Study: Reducing Soot is Fastest Way to S

Study: Reducing Soot is Fastest Way to Slow Climate Change A new study finds that reducing carbon-rich soot emissions could be the fastest and most economical way to slow climate change and protect human health. Those dust-like particles released in

经济学人252:北极气候变化 仓惶撤退

Science and technology 科技报道 Climate change in the Arctic 北极气候变化 Beating a retreat 仓惶撤退 Arctic sea ice is melting far faster than climate models predict. Why? 北极海冰正在以比气候模型所预测的快得多的速度

U.S. firm says it can "grow" diesel

BEIJING, March 1 (Xinhuanet) -- A biotechnology(生物技术) company says it can produce diesel using the same ingredients(配制成分) that make grass grow, media reported on Monday. The Massachusetts company Joule Unlimited has created a genetica

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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

Exodus 出埃及记09

9Then the Lord said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh and say to him, 'This is what the Lord , the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. 2If you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them back, 3the hand of the Lord will

经济学人129:喜马拉雅山受到了污染

Science and Technology Pollution in the Himalayas Time to call the sweep? 科技 喜马拉雅山受到了污染 是时候呼吁清扫了吗？ Soot gets everywhere. Even into the world's highest mountains 到处都弥漫着烟灰，甚至蔓延到了世

【荆棘鸟】第三章 19

 和令人生厌的灰蒙蒙的灌木丛隔断了这一望无际的景色。菲那双淡漠的眼睛眺望着这一派景象，脸上的表情没有任何变化，但可怜的麦吉却泪水盈眶了。这是一片可怖的、毫无遮挡而又广漠无

空气污染能引发心脏病

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全球700万人死亡与污染相关

全球700万人死亡与污染相关 LONDON, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Around seven million people across the world died as a result of air pollution exposure in 2012, according to a report of World Health Organization(WHO) released on Tuesday. The report

科学家宣布地质纪元进入人类世

These are called love tents but they're not what you think. 虽被称为爱的帐篷，但是它们可与你所想不同。 Chinese colleges have come up with an unusual way to help freshmen settle in. 中国的大学别出心裁，以一种特殊的方

科学家将污染物变成打印机墨水

Anirudh Sharma doesn't just want to pull harmful carbon from the air. He wants to offer a cheaper alternative to the exorbitant costs of ordinary printer ink. 阿尼鲁德夏尔马不仅想除掉空气中的有害炭物质，还希望创造一种更便

新西兰英语 464 Maori Moko used by French man

The photo of a French rugby player with a moko design on his face and back, upset many Maori. The moko is a tattoo on the face and other parts of the body. Originally, it was done with a chisel, not a needle, to make grooves in the skin. Soot from bu

WHO: Diesel Exhaust Causes Cancer

The World Health Organization, upgrading a previous warning, said June 12 that diesel exhaust causes cancer and called for tighter emissions standards, comparing the risk of exhaust to second-hand cigarette smoke. Tuesdays announcement comes after in