2001-10-05 Wildlife Society Conference
This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. Last week, more than one-thousand-five hundred people from around the world attended the yearly national conference of The Wildlife Society. It was…
2001-09-28 Virus Killing Salmon
This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. A virus that kills Atlantic salmon is spreading to fish farms in the northeastern state of Maine. The virus does not harm…
2001-07-27 Carbon Dioxide
This is the VOA Special English Environment Report. Carbon dioxide makes up less than one percent of the Earth’s atmosphere. But the gas is very important to life on Earth.…
2001-09-21 Endangered Species Agreement
This is the VOA Special English Environment Report. The Bush administration has agreed to speed efforts to protect twenty-nine kinds of animals and plants that are most in danger of…
2001-09-14 Weather Maps For Floods
This is the VOA Special English Environment Report. American scientists are developing maps that can identify areas of future flooding. The maps also may help scientists estimate the possibility of…
2001-09-07 Mercury Pollution in Wildfires
This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. Wildfires have been burning in forests in parts of the western United States this summer. American scientists are studying the effect of…
2001-08-24 Early Plant Study
This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. American scientists say the first plants may have appeared on Earth hundreds of millions of years earlier than fossil records suggest. They…
2001-08-31 Light Pollution
This is with the VOA Special English Environment Report. We usually think of pollution as a harmful waste substance that threatens the air and water. But some people have become…
2001-08-17 Sea Turtle Recovery Plan
This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. Endangered turtles in the Indian Ocean and waters of Southeast Asia are about to receive some help. Countries in the area have…
2001-08-10 Climate Change Agreement
This is the VOA Special English Environment Report. Representatives from one-hundred-seventy-eight countries have agreed to a complex plan meant to improve the environment. The nations agreed to limit the production…
2001-12-29 Argentina’s Economic Crisis
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS. Argentina’s new president has announced measures to ease a severe economic crisis in the country. Adolfo Rodriguez…
2001-12-21 The Euro
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS. On January first, many people in Europe will stop using the money they have known for a…
2001-12-15 Bush/ABM Treaty
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Program, IN THE NEWS. President Bush has announced that the United States will withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. The United…
2001-12-08 Enron Fails
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS. One of the largest companies in the United States has failed. The Enron Corporation has asked a…
2001-12-01 Aid for Afghanistan
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program IN THE NEWS. The United States and twenty-one other countries have agreed to spend thousands of millions of dollars to…