Seeing is believing. But seeing a huge rock half the size of Earth smash into Jupiter in July 1996 was incredible. Can you imagine what would happen if Earth collided with a huge space rock? It would

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AS IT IS - Earth Day 地球日 This is AS IT IS. Hi, Im Caty Weaver. Today is Earth Day. Millions of people around the world will pick up trash, learn about recycling, plant trees or take some other action to observe the day. On AS IT IS we take a lo

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Broadcast: Jan 10, 2003 By George Grow This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. American scientists say rising temperatures on Earth's surface are forcing animals and plants to move to cool

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If we could flip a switch and just turn off the Earth's magnetic field, it will take about 15,000 years to disappear, based on the rate of decay of the field that we've seen over the last 150 years. It's currently decaying at a rate that would see an

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Larry Newitt from the Geological Survey of Canada charts the movement of the magnetic North Pole as it wanders the icy reaches of northern Canada. To determine where the magnetic pole / is, we can't rely on one single observation. What I try to do is

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Earth's Fried Far-Future Postponed A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences adds at least a billion years to the already far-future estimate of when the sun will make Earth too hot to handle. Karen Hopkin reports. [The followin

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