WWOOF: World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms

By Mario Ritter Broadcast: July 8, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Recently, a listener in Nigeria told us about an organization called World-Wide Opportuniti

VOA慢速英语2014 美国欲测试福岛辐射值

AS IT IS 2014-08-02 Americans Test Seawater for Fukushima Radiation 美国欲测试福岛辐射值 It has been more than three years since the nuclear accident at the Fukushima power station in Japan. Millions of liters of radioactive cooling water f

英国学生科学读本 第92期:一盒火柴(2)

The little splints of wood which we call matches are made out of deal or pine wood which has been soaked in melted paraffin wax to make it burn more easily. 这种被我们称之为火柴的薄木片由欧洲赤松（松树）制成, 在液体的石蜡

英文书摘精选 Matches火柴

Have you ever had a problem getting a match to light? If so, you might be using the wrong type of match. There are actually two different types of matches: safety matches and strike-anywhere matches. 以前你点燃火柴时有没有点不着的时候呢

SSS 2009-08-21

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch may be disappearing, and not in a good way. New research presented at the biannual meeting of the American Chemical Society reveals that polystyrene actually can break down in seawater. Polystyrene is probably better k

未来水环境让现有鱼类很难生存(有声)

Fish raised in the more acidic seawater that would result from higher carbon dioxide levels forget to flee predators. More carbon dioxide emissions lead to more CO2 dissolving in the oceans, which turns the water acidic. Those sour seas slow the grow

SSS 2010-12-02

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Life on earth requires six basic ingredientscarbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur and phosphorus. Those six elements are the building blocks for DNA and R

SSS 2010-07-08

More carbon dioxide emissions lead to more CO2 dissolving in the oceans, which turns the water acidic. Those sour seas slow the growth of corals. And it turns out acidic seawater also makes clownfish and damselfish suicidally bold and reckless, accor

海水淡化：中国水源危机的一线希望

More government support, including subsidies and a favorable pricing mechanism, is needed for the country to use desalinated seawater to quench its thirst, a top industry expert said。 The lack of an effective pricing mechanism for desalinated water

每日一词【1030】organic：有机的，绿色的

今天我们要学的词是organic。 Organic, 有机的，绿色的。 Organic product, 有机产品。近年来，美国很多消费者开始崇尚绿色、有机食品。不过，统计数字显示， Organic food accounted for only 3.5% of the fo

VOA慢速英语-Agriculture Report - Special Feed for Swine May Help

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Hogs at an Ohio farm Research shows that waste from pigs that are fed a special kind of corn may help a farmer's crops. And it also may help the environment. Any farmer who raises swine knows that

2007年VOA标准英语-Ukrainian Officials Predict No Long-Term Conseq

By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 18 July 2007 Officials in Ukraine are assessing the damage of a train crash in western Ukraine that sent huge clouds of burning phosphorus billowing into the air. The accident, which took place Monday, is raising health conce

美国国家公共电台 NPR To Appeal To A Modern Palate, Native Chef Gives Tradition A Little Twist

AILSA CHANG, HOST: When I think of my favorite foods, I can tick off my favorite Chinese dishes, Mexican dishes, Italian dishes. But if you asked me what Native American dish I enjoy most, I'd be stumped. There's a growing number of Native chefs who

美国国家公共电台 NPR Figure Out How To Cheaply Fix Algae Blooms And Win $10 Million

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Summertime brings algae blooms to many parts of the country - those mats of bright green organisms that can blanket waterways. In places like Florida's Lake Okeechobee, the blooms hurt tourism. They kill fish. They threaten w

英闻天下——455 Over-exploitation of Groundwater

Over-use of groundwater may cause landslides. However, in costal areas it also brings seawater intrusion. Let's take a look at the problem with our reporter Zhang Wan. In a village in the costal area of Dalian, Liaoning Province, many villagers compl

万物简史 第130期:基本物质(2)

The commercial potential for the stuffwhich soon became known as phosphorus, from Greek and Latin roots meaning light bearingwas not lost on eager businesspeople, but the difficulties of manufacture made it too costly to exploit. An ounce of phosphor

《荒野求生》之跟着贝尔去冒险第178期:绝好的救生食品

Packed with proteins and minerals,oysters are the perfect survival food, 牡蛎富含蛋白质和矿物质 是绝好的救生食品 and there's an almost endless supply. 而且几乎取之不尽 It'd be nicer sharing it with the love of your life and

英文短篇故事（纽约）384 Where Did the Oceans Go?

A huge meteorite crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. Babies who were sound asleep in Asia heard the impact. The meteorite went through the ocean bottom. It created a hole deep in the Earth. All the seawater from the Atlantic started rushing into the hol

万物简史 第385期:浩瀚的海洋(4)

Water is so vital to us that it is easy to overlook that all but the smallest fraction of the water on Earth is poisonous to us, 水对我们太重要了，因此我们不容易注意到，地球上绝大部分的水对我们来说都是有毒的，

英语听力文摘 English Digest 667 火柴

Matches Striking matches, on this Moment of Science. Have you ever had a problem getting a match to light? If so, you might be using the wrong type of match. There are actually two different types of matches: safety matches and strike-anywhere matche