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AGRICULTURE REPORT - Protecting the Nation's Forests

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VOA标准英语2011--Vines Overwhelming Trees in Rain Forests

Vines Overwhelming Trees in Rain Forests Tropical rain forests in the American Hemisphere and other regions of the world are changing rapidly. Studies conducted over recent decades indicate that increasingly, most of the trees in South and Central Am

美国国家公共电台 NPR After Hurricane's Wrath, Puerto Rico's Green Forests Turn Bare Brown

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The once-green hillsides of Puerto Rico are now brown. Hurricane Maria stripped bare the lush forests of the island. While it may look depressing in the near term, NPR's John Burnett reports the forests will likely recover.

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Earth and Sky:Forests and CO2 森林和二氧化碳

Forests and CO2 森林和二氧化碳 The amount of fossil fuel emissions released into the atmosphere has steadily risen since the Industrial Revolution. But recently, part of those emissions have been disappearing. Learn more about forests and CO2 -- on

60秒科学:Immigrant Dust Feeds Rain Forests

Immigrant Dust Feeds Rain Forests Intercontinental dust helps fertilize lush forests in the Western Hemisphere and Hawaii, noted Oliver Chadwick of the University of California, Santa Barbara, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the

60秒科学:Do Rainforests Create Rain?

Rainforests exist because it rains a lot and that makes the forests grow, right? Well, not so fast. What if its not the rain that makes the forestswhat if its the forests that actually generate the rain? Thats the contention of a paper in BioScience

ENVIRONMENT REPORT - World's Forests Endangered

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Rainforests exist because it rains a lot and that makes forests grow, right? Well, not so fast. What if its not the rain that makes the forests? What if its the forests that actually generate the rain? That is the contention of a paper in BioScience

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VOA慢速英语2011--Mangrove Forests Among the Most Carbon-r

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Mangrove Forests Among the Most Carbon-rich Forests in the World BOB DOUGHTY: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty. FAITH LAPIDUS: And Im Faith Lapidus. This week, we will tell how coastal forests

2006年VOA标准英语-World Bank Proposes Carbon Trading to Save Rain

By David McAlary Washington 30 October 2006 The World Bank says rapidly diminishing tropical forests could be saved if farmers and loggers were paid not to cut the trees. It proposes to extend the current international system of carbon trading for t

VOA标准英语2012--Man's Africa Trek Saves Pristine Forests

Man's Africa Trek Saves Pristine Forests Michael Fay calls himself a nature boy. Hes made a career of exploring the globe in the name of environmental protection, sponsored by organizations like National Geographic and the Wildlife Conservation Socie

美国国家公共电台 NPR Novelist Richard Powers Finds New Stories Deep In Old Growth Forests

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Richard Powers likes to explore big ideas in his novels. He has written about artificial intelligence, game theory, genetics, music and a lot of other things. In his latest book, The Overstory, Powers takes on trees and the lives o

美国国家公共电台 NPR Old-Growth Forests May Help Songbirds Cope With Warming Climate

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Songbirds have been in decline for decades. And it's becoming clear that climate change is a factor. Now scientists are finding that old-growth forests may help the birds cope with rising temperatures. Jes Burns of Oregon P

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