2024-06-15 African Elephants Call, Answer to Individual Names
African elephants call each other by and answer to individual names, a new study finds. Such communication is rare in…
2024-06-15 4,000-year-old Building Discovered in Greece
Greek officials recently announced the discovery of a 4,000-year-old-stone building on the island of Crete. The historical find could block…
2024-06-15 Poorly-paid Healthcare Workers Leaving Africa
Cameroon has one of the world’s lowest amounts of health care workers per capita. About a third of trained doctors…
2024-06-15 International Students Face Uncertain Job Market at Home, in US
International students in the United States are concerned that technology job reductions will make it hard to get a good…
2024-06-14 UN: Aquatic Farming Production Is More Than Fishing
The number of aquatic animals harvested worldwide by farming is now higher than the amount fished from the wild, the…
2024-06-14 Researchers: Climate Change Made Brazil’s Floods Twice as Likely
A team of international researchers says that climate change made recent flooding in southern Brazil twice as likely to happen.…
2024-06-14 Modern Horse Traces Origin to 4200 Years Ago
The horse changed human history. And now scientists have a clearer idea of when humans began to change the horse.…
2024-06-14 Feel, Feel Like
Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question from Ana in Brazil about the difference between “feel”…
2024-06-13 Brazilian Ranchers: World’s Costliest Cow Is ‘The Best’
The Brazilian ranchers who own the world’s most costly cow call her Viatina-19. The large, white cow is valued at…
2024-06-13 What Is the Hajj?
Once a year, millions of Muslims from all over the world travel to Saudi Arabia, to complete an important religious…
2024-06-13 US Workers Secretly Take ‘Workations’
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. In the United States, a quiet change is happening…
2024-06-13 Talking about Hot Weather Around the World
In a recent Everyday Grammar, we showed how to use three grammatical structures to talk about hot weather. They are…