Alessandra Korap, a Munduruku Indigenous woman from the Brazilian Amazon, has been awarded a 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize. 巴西亚马逊的蒙杜鲁库土著妇女亚历山德拉科拉普被授予2023年戈德曼环境奖。 The respected award...
Because of severely dry conditions, Tunisia has ordered water to be rationed with little warning to the people there. 由于严重干旱,突尼斯下令对水进行定量配给,却几乎没有向那里的人们发出警告。 Water is to be cut o...
Environmental groups and fishing interests are criticizing regional organizations set up by the United Nations to supervise fishing activities around the world. 环保组织和渔业利益集团批评联合国设立的监督世界各地渔业活动的区...
The Seine River, the famous river that goes through Paris, has mostly been off-limits to swimmers since 1923. 塞纳河是流经巴黎的著名河流,自1923年以来,大部分时间都禁止游泳。 Although it has been the subject of art, book...
You may have already seen them in some restaurants around the world: robots. 你可能已经在世界各地的一些餐厅里看到过它们:机器人。 They are about the size of a child. 它们和小孩差不多大。 They can welcome people and...
Changing sea levels are affecting freshwater in places like Chellanam, India. 不断变化的海平面正在影响印度切拉南等地的淡水。 In Chellanam, saltwater is moving inland into small bodies of fresh water, like ponds and wells, which...
Solar Energy Helps Indonesian Villagers Do More On Indonesia's eastern island of Sumba, solar power is providing people with electricity. Having electric lights can mean many things. It can mean being able to work later in the evenings, making more m...
At a recent event for investors, Tesla presented an idea that may change the way cars are made around the world. The manufacturing idea is called the unboxed process. If it succeeds in reducing the cost of electric cars, analysts say the process migh...
Millard Fillmore: Forgotten VOA Learning English presents America's Presidents. Today we are talking about Millard Fillmore, the 13th president of the United States. Fillmore is also likely the least remembered president. He has been called uninspiri...
Teruko Yahata is 85 years old. But she could have died as a girl. She was in Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city. Tens of thousands of people died immediately, and thousands more suffered long...
A new report says the war in Ukraine helped push the worldwide number of people left internally displaced by conflict or natural disasters to 71.1 million last year. It was a record high number. 一份新的报告称,去年乌克兰战争帮助推动...
As Fewer Women Wear Head Coverings, Irans Leaders React More Iranian women are choosing not to wear the head covering called the hijab. Since the early years of Iran's Islamic Revolution, women have been required to cover their heads by law. Today, m...
Damage to roads and bridges is delaying rescue efforts in Myanmar's western Rakhine State after a powerful ocean storm struck Sunday. 周日,一场强大的海洋风暴袭击了缅甸若开邦西部,造成道路和桥梁受损,延误了救援工作...
Maine School Worker Helps Champion Chess Teams At a school in Hampden, Maine, David Bishop works to keep floors clean and classrooms in good shape. Bishop is a janitor. But he is also known as the coach of the chess teams at Reeds Brook Middle School...
The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden says the number of migrants crossing the southern U.S. border with Mexico has unexpectedly fallen. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said border agents reported a 50 percent reduction i...