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Goldman Environmental Prizes Honor Diverse Group of Activists Kenyan Ikal Angelei is a hero to the people who live around Lake Turkana. She received a Goldman award for her efforts to halt construction of a dam on a river in neighboring Ethiopia that
This is Scientific American - 60 seconds Science. I'm Synthia Graver. Got a minute. It's obivious that say turning the lights off saves money, but being reminded that using less energy saves money may not be the most effective way to motivate consume
ENVIRONMENT REPORT -February 15, 2002: Olympics Doing Harm in Salt Lake? By Cynthia Kirk This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. Officials at the Olympic Games taking place in Salt Lake Ci
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 09 October 2007 The international environmental organization Greenpeace has opened a forest defenders camp on Indonesia's Sumatra Island to bring global attention to the country's destruction of its forests. VOA's Nanc
1. Still no word on the fate of an American journalist who's been kidnapped in Iraq. Jill Carroll's abductors set a Friday deadline for killing her unless all Iraqi women being held in military custod
An international HIV/AIDS advocacy group says the United Nations has failed the women of the Democratic Republic of Congo. AIDS-Free World says it's time for the U.N. to stop passing resolutions on the Congo and take action. The estimated number of r
Pictures Connect People for Earth Day 2013 From VOA Learning English, welcome to This Is America. I'm Kelly Jean Kelly. And I'm Mario Ritter. April twenty-second is Earth Day. Former United States Senator Gaylord Nelson started the observance in nine
This Is America - Pictures Connect People for Earth Day 2013 From VOA Learning English, welcome to This Is America. I'm Kelly Jean Kelly. And I'm Mario Ritter. April twenty-second is Earth Day. Former United States Senator Gaylord Nelson started the
Feed the People or Save the Planet? 养活人口还是拯救地球? Americans are not eating as much meat as they used to. Price is certainly a major reason. But people also say there are other reasons, such as health and ethics. For the first time,
By Tony Budny Washington 21 September 2007 The non-governmental advocacy group National Endowment for Democracy earlier this week (September 18th) honored three international journalists and a press freedom organization for their efforts to spread fr
Activists Honored by Refugee Advocacy Group There are about 44 million refugees and internally-displaced people around the world and 12 million stateless individuals living in limbo without citizenship rights. This according to Refugees International
For more than four decades, John Adams has fought to defend the environment and empowered individuals in the US and around the world to join the cause. Adams is co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, the nation's first law firm for the
Advocacy Group Praises Clinton AIDS Remarks Advocacy groups are praising Secretary of State Hillary Clintons comments that an AIDS-free generation is within reach. Mrs. Clinton spoke Monday at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Mitchell Warren c
GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, ideas about dialogue and exchange. And we couldn't possibly do a show about dialogue without talking about politics. OK, so, Robb, I think - I have this feeling that
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: One of the country's biggest Latino advocacy groups has a new name. This month, the National Council of La Raza became UnidosUS. As NPR's Jessica Diaz-Hurtado reports, the group hopes to appeal to a new generation. JESSICA DIAZ-H
BEIJING - Urban residents in Beijing left 183.7 tonnes of paper scraps from firecrackers set off during the week-long Spring Festival holiday, according to the capital's environmental sanitation group. The figure was 3.09 tonnes less than that of the
By Catherine Drew London 11 March 2008 Fish is now the most traded animal commodity on the planet. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, estimates 140 million tons of wild and farmed fish were sold in 2004. The FAO reports tha
To talk more about China's environmental protection targets, we have Wu Changhua, the Greater China Director of the Climate Group. Q1: Give us more insights into these numbers. Just how bad are they? Q2: Now the plan is to have environmental protecti
By Ron Corben Bangkok 05 November 2009 Minority communities in Burma say the exploitation of the country's natural resources is damaging the environment and increasing the military presence in their areas. The activists say greater public participat