By Mario Ritter Broadcast: July 8, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Recently, a listener in Nigeria told us about an organization called World-Wide Opportuniti

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A new study has found that the Arctic's iconic polar bears are finding it harder to hunt for food due to melting sea ice caused by climate change, putting the species at a growing risk of extinction. Researchers from the United States Geological Surv

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Seventy-nine degrees north latitude is near the top, at the cold edge of the world. In the winter, when temperatures plunge below freezing, there is complete darkness at noon. During summer, the sun shines at midnight, there is no place to hide. Dang

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今天我们要学的词是organic。 Organic, 有机的,绿色的。 Organic product, 有机产品。近年来,美国很多消费者开始崇尚绿色、有机食品。不过,统计数字显示, Organic food accounted for only 3.5% of the fo

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BEIJING, June 21 (Xinhua) -- China will launch a new icebreaker for use during an upcoming 2013 polar expedition, a senior oceanic official said on Tuesday. Both the new icebreaker and Xuelong (Snow Dragon), an icebreaker that operated in Antarctica,

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Paul: So have you seen all these freakish weather events on the news all around the world? Amy: Yeah, yeah. I'm trying to pay attention, yeah. It's been pretty bad in some places. I think, it's been the wettest January on record in the UK at the mome

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