Environmental protection

After all, those first two steps or approaches spark a stronger than usual interest in that dictionary definition. Youre now personally involved. Did you find out the word meaning? Your heightened int

英闻天下——551 Activists Urge Better Wildlife Protection

Animal rights activists here in China are issuing new calls for an amendment to this country's wildlife protection law. CRI's Alexander Blucher explains. China's wildlife protection law was passed in 1989 with the aim of sustaining wildlife as a reso

SSS 2011-08-24

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Rivers today have high muddy banks, sandbars and bends. But they didnt always look that way because it wasnt until the evolution of tree-like plants, some 330 mi

CRI实用英语课堂 Unit 26 Environmental Protection III 环境保护（下）

Part6Noise Pollution 噪音污染 Noise is among the most pervasive pollutants today. Noise from road traffic, jet planes, jet skis, garbage trucks, construction equipment, manufacturing processes, lawn mowers, leaf blowers, and boom boxes, to name a fe

SSS 2009-07-01

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Christie Nicholson. Got a minute? During the last ice age our problem was too little carbon. Unlike today where too much carbon is causing global warming. Past glacial ages occurred partly because

NPR 2009-08-07

The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court. NPR's Audie Cornish reports. Minnesota Senator Al Franken read the tallies at the end of the confirmation vote. On this vote, the yeas are 68 and the nays are 31. Th

Forestry authority urges wildlife protection efforts

Forestry authority urges wildlife protection efforts

Zsa Zsa Gabor rushed to hospital again

BEIJING, Oct. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was rushed again to the hospital in Los Angeles to reattach a feeding tube to her stomach Sunday, her publicist said. The 94-year-old actress was taken from her home to UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical

TED演讲：医生们会犯错误(6)

And I was shocked and shaken to the core. 我震惊不已， 吓得不得了。 And I went through this roller coaster, because after they stabilized her, she went to the intensive care unit, and I hoped against hope that she would recover. 之后我的

英闻天下——431 Activists Urge Better Wildlife Protection

Animal rights activists here in China are issuing new calls for an amendment to this country's wildlife protection law. CRI's Alexander Blucher explains. China's wildlife protection law was passed in 1989 with the aim of sustaining wildlife as a reso

Environmental protection urged amid economic slowdown

BEIJING, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Governments and enterprises should hold on to emission reduction efforts despite cooling economy and resist the temptation of spurring economy through energy-inefficient industrial projects, officials and experts said Satu

拉丁美洲仍是最不平等，最不安全的地区

拉丁美洲仍是最不平等，最不安全的地区 UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Latin America remained the most unequal and most insecure region in the world, said a UN report released Tuesday, calling for efforts to reduce insecurity thro

Obama: Lawmakers Need to Do Right Thing on Debt

President Barack Obama says congressional leaders from both political parties need to do the right thing and work with him to achieve the largest possible compromise to cut deficit spending and raise the national debt limit. Mr. Obama used a news con

IPR protection needed for Chinese herbal medicines

GUIYANG, April 26 (Xinhua) -- The extraordinary effects of Chinese herbal medicines have fueled foreign interest in launching research projects into the profitable and interesting field in recent years. Xia Wen, director of the academic department of

飞翔的梦想与现实

Oh, to be free like a bird. It's been the stuff of fantacy, and of reality. Sort of .A self-contained flying man. This jet pack from 1960s had barely enough fuel to fly 30 seconds. So the dream languished for decades. Everyone agreed it was completel

Top legislator stresses protection over cultural relics

BEIJING, April 5 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislator Wu Bangguo on Thursday stressed protection of the country's cultural relics ahead of the top legislature's nationwide inspection of the enforcement of Law on the Protection of Cultural Relics. Wu, c

IMF says US economic recovery still policy driven

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- Thanks to a massive（巨大的） and sustained（持久的） policy response, the U.S. economy has continued to recover from the worst recession（衰退,不景气） since the Great Depression, but the recovery rem

环境保护(Environmental Protection)

Today the quality of our natural environment has become an important issue. The world population is rising so quickly that the world has become too crowded. We are using up our natural resources and at the same time polluting our environment with dan

人民币对美元连续大涨

The central parity rate of the Chinese currency strengthened 175 basis points on Tuesday, closing at 6.32 to the U.S. dollar. The yuan has stabilized somewhat after a sharp depreciation in August, but remains down 1.8 percent compared to the start of

自我检测：新托福阅读练习题

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