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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

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年Scientific American(十一)月

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

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(31) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

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

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(一月)

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

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(十二)月

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

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味英语

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

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(十一月)
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andaspis hawaiiensis
arbitrary shaped waveguide
armatureaxle
axis of total symmetry
Bababudanite
battery starter
bid fair to be
bratlings
bread shell
butting saw
cable regulation
canina
Carru
casefuls
chamaejasmine
control track head
coredialysis
cramomycin
crastin
crural fossae
deaf to all entreaties
degrammaticalize
detached mass
diester grease
dunser
duplexure
ethynylene
exagerate
extracting forceps
facultative parthengenesis
fadeable
false deck
far field potential
final accounting statements
fregate (frigate i.)
gross transformation
H-3
hamfistedly
Idutywa
impolarizable
impressionables
inches-by-inches
inhib
Kellogg millisecond furnace
kopiyka
lysyl oxidase
marine iguanas
mccastle
meladoes
melayus
metering zone
multicursal
Nihonglish
non-profit bookkeeping
nonadvantageous
nostalgizing
operation meeting
original story
outleading
output and input
page segment
panacen
pedestal jaw
Pinus strobiformis
poplite
relative transmittance
resonium-A
retirement planning
roadbuildings
Sabah
sarmentiferous
sea-stacks
self-servest
selsyn-d.c. torque motor-amplifier assembler
she's apples
silver alloy brazing
simple gateway monitoring protocol
slag corrosion
slowing-down group
soap specks
soft lump
subfield delimiter
tbeca-cell tnmors
the Paleozoic
third-graders
three-component refiner
three-stage
thrust side of piston
tickin
top-hung window
toxic wastes
tridimensional
tritomite
trousseaus
turbine impeller
Tyul'kino
ubomboensis
under-twig
vascular plate
wheel alignment
Xiaying Township
zimmermanns