Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn celebrate the 75th anniversary of their wedding today. The Carters were married in 1946, one year after they met. At the time, the future president was a student at the U.S. Naval Academy in An...
Members of Chile's constitutional delegation have chosen a woman from the indigenous Mapuche people to lead efforts to create the new constitution. The choice marks a big turning point for a people that were ignored during the making of the country's...
Sinking land, a rising sea and other climate change effects have killed a wooded area in Louisiana where a Native American chief played as a child. In the nearby Mississippi River delta system, middle-school students can stand on islands that formed...
Gardeners cannot always tell how much rain has fallen. Your garden area may seem completely wet after a strong, short period of rain. But if you put your finger a short way into the ground, you might find very dry soil. Because watering - not too muc...
Ross Bagne was a 68-year-old small-business owner in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He could have gotten the COVID-19 vaccine in early February but decided not to. He became infected. He died on June 4 after spending more than three weeks in the hospital with co...
Staying Safe in Hot Temperatures From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. Hot weather kills hundreds of people every year. The World Health Organization estimates that from 1998 to 2017 more than 166,000 people died as a result...
The newest faces among South Korean influencers are no longer the usual young celebrities in their 20s. Instead, people in the entertainment industry and on social media are becoming interested in a different generation: the older generation. Influen...
New Recycling Methods Will Make Electric Vehicles Greener Critics of electric vehicles say they do reduce carbon emissions, but the process of making the materials for their batteries produces large amounts of carbon. Now, researchers in Britain and...
A new study says life in the clouds of Venus is unlikely. Scientists from Europe and the U.S. say there is not enough water in the planet's clouds to support life as we know it. The team started studying the possibility of life in Venus' clouds after...
The medical services for pregnant women at the health clinic closest to Monica Maxwell's home in Malawi were free. The cost to get there, however, was more than Maxwell could pay for. Because of the pandemic, she was earning less money than usual sel...
Pelican Population Grows in Albania During Pandemic The pandemic has brought one good thing to western Albania's Divjaka-Karavasta Lagoon: peace and quiet for rare pelicans. It is this calm that the birds need to mate which has led to their populatio...
Almost 180 million Americans about 54 percent of the population have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Experts say low vaccination rates could permit the virus to become stronger and spread easily again. 近1.8亿美国人至少接种了第...
