2024-10-03 Argentine Town Struggles with Parrot Invasion
The Argentine town of Hilario Ascasubi near the country’s Atlantic coast has a problem not many places have ever had. It has too many parrots. Biologists say thousands of the…
2024-10-03 Moving Homeless People to Shelter Is Not Easy
Edgar Tapia works on the Homeless Outreach Team of San Francisco, California. He goes to places where people are living in the streets and tells them there is space for…
2024-10-03 How Much Do You Know about Quantifiers?
For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Today we are going to talk about different ways of expressing quantity in English. A quantifier is a word or number that…
2024-10-02 Short Corn Is Growing Stronger in US Midwest
Fields of tall corn plants are a common thing to see in the Midwest United States in late summer. They are as much a part of rural America as big…
2024-10-02 Everest Growing Taller than Expected
Mount Everest, standing 8.85 kilometers above sea level, is Earth’s tallest mountain. And Mount Everest is still growing. Mount Everest and the rest of the Himalayas are continuing on an…
2024-10-02 US Seeks Ban on Chinese, Russian Tech for Self-driving Vehicles
The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has proposed a ban on the sale of self-driving vehicles in the U.S. using Chinese or Russian technologies. The proposal was recently announced…
2024-10-01 How Is Pennsylvania Testing Its Voting Machines?
Elections officials across Pennsylvania have begun testing their voting machines using a method known as logic and accuracy testing. It will be important to know how the machines will perform…
2024-10-01 Stair-climbing: A Sure Way to Burn Calories
If you are trying to lose weight, climbing stairs as a regular exercise might be for you. Stairs are available in many places. And research shows stair-climbing is more effective…
2024-10-01 Chinese Students Shift from US to Australia, Britain
A yearly report on international study shows the number of Chinese students in the United States fell by a small amount last year. Meanwhile, a growing number of Chinese students…