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

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(22) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(九月)

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Climate scientists are struggling to figure out how a warming planet will affect different ecosystems like forests, swamps and grasslands. So researchers looked back at the end of the last ice age to see what might be in store for

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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

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Urban development is encroaching on forests in the Pacific Northwest. And its also ruining Valentines Day for some songbirds. Because urban growth is making it a challenge for some birds like the Pacific Wren to stay faithful to their partners, at le

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今天我们来看一看首都饭店在哪条街用英语怎么说: Which street is Capital Hotel on? 首都饭店 还可以这么说: How do I walk back to Capital Hotel? 可以这样回答: It is on Highland Avenue. Go straight until you get to

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By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 09 October 2007 The international environmental organization Greenpeace has opened a forest defenders camp on Indonesia's Sumatra Island to bring global attention to the country's destruction of its forests. VOA's Nanc

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By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 27 October 2006 watch Deforestation report Deforestation, an ongoing problem, is receiving new scrutiny, this time from the World Bank. It is all part of the bank's mission to reduce global poverty by spurring economic g

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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

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 23 July 2007 Australian officials are calling for global support for a satellite monitoring system to combat illegal logging and the destruction of forests in Asia and the Pacific. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports. FAO says most

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 23 March 2007 Many people in Uganda are up in arms (very upset) about a government plan approved by the cabinet this week to clear cut about one-third of a national forest reserve for sugar cane growing. Lawyers and civic gr

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African Rainforests Continue to Face Challenges The African continent contains about 30 percent of the worlds global rainforests, second only to the Amazon. Scientists and conservationists met at Oxford University to discuss changes the forests are e

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Summer wildfires continue to rage across forests on the Mediterranean islands of Corsica and Sardinia. Spain and Greece are also dealing with blazes. Italian and French authorities have detained a number of people suspected of starting the forest fi

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Slowdown Reported on Indigenous Rights 关于土著人人权方面的报道 Two new reports say theres been a dramatic slowdown in recognizing the rights of indigenous people to tropical forest land and resources. The Rights and Resources Initiative

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By Chad Bouchard Bali 05 December 2007 Environmental experts at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali say illegal logging is decimating tropical forests and contributing to rising global temperatures. Chad Bouchard reports from the con

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1. Imagine you're walking through a forest. I'm guessing you're thinking of a collection of trees. Yes, trees are the foundation of forests, but a forest is much more than what you see, and today I want to change the way you think about forests. You

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