VOA慢速英语--Are Forests an Answer to Carbon Pollution?

Burning coal for energy adds planet-warming carbon dioxide, or CO2, to Earths atmosphere. As the planet heats up, experts warn that simply cutting greenhouse gas emissions will not be enough to avoid possibly disastrous levels of global warming. CO2

China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns

Each year, millions of people visit the 4,570-meter-high Baishui Glacier in southern China. Scientists say it is one of the worlds fastest-melting glaciers. The huge body of ice is in the southeastern edge of a Central Asian region called the Third P

VOA标准英语2009年-Conservation Groups Say Forest Carbon Mark

By Daniel Schearf Bangkok 29 September 2009 Conservation groups say creating a global market for trading carbon credits from uncut forests is critical to fighting climate change and should be part of a United Nations-backed agreement being whittled

科学美国人60秒 SSS Forest Die-Offs Alter Global Climate 'Like El Nino'

Climate change may be partly to blame for the massive die-off of pine trees in the western U.S. But it works the other way, too: forest die-offs can alter the global climate. I like thinking of this as a parallel to something like El Nino. Abigail Sw

ENVIRONMENT REPORT - Wildfires Blamed For Climate

ENVIRONMENT REPORT– Wildfires Blamed For Climate By George Grow Broadcast: December 20, 2002 This is the VOA Special English Environment Report. A new study has found that major forest fires can inf

美国国家公共电台 NPR Warming Climate Is Quieting Kauai's Colorful Forest Birds

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: In Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, the native forest birds are in danger. The island has lost more than half of those native species, and it could be an early warning for the other Hawaiian Islands. Gloria Hillard reports. GLORIA

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The trouble with trees 自人类诞生之日起，树木就一直忠实地陪伴着我们。年复一年的生息轮回中，除了年轮的增长，我们似乎很难察觉树木所经历的改变。然而，我们的这些老朋友在全球气候急剧

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Rain Forest 热带雨林 Have you ever been to a rain forest? 你去过热带雨林吗？ Rain forests are found around the equator. 热带雨林在赤道附近。 In the rain forests, we only see summer all year long. 热带雨林里终年只有夏季

Severe Drought, Wildfires Threaten Water Resources

Severe Drought, Wildfires Threaten Water Resources This is Valles Caldera. Actually, it's the giant mouth of a dormant super volcano that last erupted 40,000 years ago. In the millennia since then, the terrain developed high-elevation forests, of abu

VOA标准英语2012--Tree Deaths Linked to Climate Change

Tree Deaths Linked to Climate Change Stanford University graduate student William Anderegg has seen this forest die-off firsthand. His doctoral thesis documents the impact of drought on trembling aspen, the most common tree in North America. These ar

VOA标准英语2012--Endangered Primate Offers Clues to Climate Change

Endangered Primate Offers Clues to Climate Change Scientists are studying a rare African monkey thats endangered both from climate change and humans. They hope the primates past can give clues to the future effects of rising temperatures. Its called

VOA英语2010年-Mummified Forest Reveals Clues About Climate

A discovery of a mummified forest that's between two and 10 million years old is giving scientists a new window on climate change. Joel Barker, a research scientist at the Byrd Polar Research Center at the Ohio State University, discovered the mummif

VOA标准英语2011--Dwindling West African Rainforest Threat

Dwindling West African Rainforest Threatens Long-Term Food Security In West Africa, the Guinean Rainforest is rapidly disappearing. A new study says increased production of cocoa, cassava and oil palm has meant more land is being cleared for agricult

VOA标准英语2012--Trees Stand Tall Against Climate Change

Trees Stand Tall Against Climate Change The next U.N. Climate Change Conference gets underway November 26 in Doha, Qatar. Once again, negotiators will try to reach a broad agreement on dealing with rising global temperatures. Deforestation is expecte

美国国家公共电台 NPR Snow-Making For Skiing During Warm Winters Comes With Environmental Cost

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Winter Olympics are in full swing, and sports like cross-country skiing are getting some time to shine. But you might not be able to tell it's cross-country season if you are in Colorado. Blades of grass and patches of dirt s

美国国家公共电台 NPR As India's Climate Changes, Farmers In The North Experiment With New Crops

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In our final installment on how communities around the world are adjusting to climate change, we go to India. Pollution there from the burning of fossil fuels is encouraging the spread of solar energy. But as NPR's Julie Mc

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鬼狒濒临绝种 反映气候变迁 Scientists are studying a rare African monkey thats endangered both from climate change and humans. They hope the primates past can give clues to the future effects of rising temperatures. 科学家正在研究一种

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Snow-whiteⅠ Once there was a Queen. She was sitting at the window. There was snow outside in the garden--snow on the hill and in the lane, snow on the huts and on the trees: all things were white with snow. She had some cloth in her hand and a need

VOA标准英语2009年-Governments See Dollars in Re-Grown Forest

By Luke Hunt Bangkok 05 November 2009 FAO says most countries in Europe and North America have reversed centuries of deforestation As international attention shifts to Copenhagen and the coming United Nations conference on climate change, reforestat