2022-03-06 UN: Climate Change to Uproot Millions in Asia
FILE – A military truck drives through the water on a flooded toll road following heavy rains in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, File) The walls…
2022-03-05 US Parents Oppose School Book Bans
Amanda Darrow, director of youth, family and education programs at the Utah Pride Center, poses with books, including “The Bluest Eye,” by Toni Morrison. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) The number…
2022-03-05 Two Gold Expressions
FILE – Gold bullions are displayed at GoldSilver Central’s office in Singapore June 19, 2017. And now Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. On this show we talk…
2022-03-05 Support Grows in Finland, Sweden for NATO Membership
This file photo shows Sweden’s Air Force “Grippen” fighters escorting a Lithuanian Air Force C-27J plane during NATO joint military exercise in Siauliai April 1, 2014. (REUTERS/Ints Kalnins) There is…
2022-03-05 Scientists Concerned about Ukraine War’s Effects on Chernobyl
In this file photo, a shelter construction covers the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, on April 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File) On the same…
2022-03-05 UN Report Says Great Barrier Reef Is in Crisis
The U.N.’s recent report on climate change says the Great Barrier Reef in Australia is in great danger. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is warning that…
2022-03-04 All Right and Alright
Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question from Humera in Pakistan. Humera writes, Question: Amazing way of teaching. I would like to know the difference between…
2022-03-04 ‘Mammon and the Archer’ by O. Henry
We present the short story “Mammon and the Archer” by O. Henry. The story was originally adapted and recorded by the U.S. Department of State. Old Anthony Rockwall, who made…
2022-03-04 Russian Invasion Puts Kyiv’s Important Cultural Places at Risk
Morning fog surrounds the thousand-year-old Monastery of the Caves, also known as Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, one of the holiest sites of Eastern Orthodox Christians, in Kyiv, Ukraine on Saturday, Nov. 10,…
2022-03-04 Climate Change Has Already Affected South America
A man carries a dog rescued from a residential area destroyed by landslides in Petropolis, Brazil, Feb. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File) Scientists have long warned that extreme weather…
2022-03-04 Risky Attack on Nuclear Power Center in Ukraine Raises Concerns
This image made from a video released by Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant shows bright flaring object landing in grounds of the nuclear plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine Friday, March 4, 2022.…
2022-03-03 International Crises and Verb Forms
An international crisis – the invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine – has been one of the top stories in the news in recent days. In today’s report, we will…