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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

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VOA标准英语2009-Bhopal Continues to Suffer Quarter Century a

The world's worst industrial disaster took place 25 years ago, in central India. A chemical leak at the plant of the Indian subsidiary of an American corporation, Union Carbide, poisoned an estimated half million residents of the city of Bhopal. The

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

20 Years after Tragedy in India, New Report Accuses US Compa

In the early morning hours of December 3, 1984, deadly gas leaked from a Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. The accident would result in the worst industrial disaster of the 20th centur

2013年6月英语四级作文预测：食品安全问题

Food Safety 1. 食品安全问题令人担忧。 2. 对此，你有什么看法（可从蔬菜、水果滥用农药、激素方面分析）？ 【范文】 Currently, many problems concerning the safety of food have popped up. As for me, I believe at

科学家在波兰致力于拯救蜜蜂

Scientists in Poland Work to Save Honeybees 科学家在波兰致力于拯救蜜蜂 Honeybees are in danger worldwide. Their homes -- known as colonies -- are suffering from what scientists call Colony Collapse Disorder. Scientists have linked the di

VOA慢速英语2015 联合国会谈关注有害化学物质

AS IT IS 2015-10-12 UN Talks Focus on Too Many Toxic Chemicals 联合国会谈关注有害化学物质 Only a small number of the 100,000 chemicals sold worldwide have been safety tested. 在销往世界各地的10万多类化学品中，只有其中的

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2010年-Cold Front Hits Russia After Two-Month

Andrei Savelyev, 46, stands at the site of his house that was burnt down during the forest fires, 17 Aug 2010, in the village of Yuzhny, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, some 300 kilometers (187.5 miles) east of Moscow The heat wave that gripped Moscow

VOA标准英语African Countries Debate Using DDT in Anti-Mal

African Countries Debate Using DDT in Anti-Malaria Efforts The chemical pesticide DDT has been banned by most countries for use in agriculture, but some continue to use it indoors to kill insects that carry malaria. In Zambia, it's an important part

VOA标准英语2012--Pesticides Threaten Thailand’s Reputation as Food Exporter

Pesticides Threaten Thailands Reputation as Food Exporter Here, in the hills of Northern Thailand, farm workers like Inson face the constant pressure of producing optimum harvests for overseas clients. Many farms rely on imported chemical pesticides

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 Pesticides Are Harming Bees — But Not Everywhere, Major New Study Shows

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And now some bad news for bees. There is new evidence that they are being harmed by some widely used pesticides though it may be only if the bees already are vulnerable. Here's NPR's Dan Charles. DAN CHARLES, BYLINE: These pestici

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

VOA双语新闻：1、泰国农产品安全令人担忧

泰国农产品安全令人担忧 Thailand has long been recognized as a leading exporter of rice and other agricultural produce. But tests for pesticide residues are raising concerns about whether the food is safe. 长期以来，泰国是众所周知

VOA双语新闻 - 博帕尔毒气泄露受害者苦等判决2

India is marking the 25th anniversary of the leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in the city of Bhopal. The victims have generally been left in a legal haze since the ill-fated night (Dec. 2, 1984) when a toxic-gas cloud spread across the centr

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

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