2001-12-28 Warm Year
This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. Scientists expect this year to be the second warmest year ever recorded. They say average surface temperatures this year will be warmer…
2001-12-07 UN Environment Prize
This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. An American environmental activist, Huey Johnson, has won the United Nations Sasakawa Environment Prize this year. The prize is worth two-hundred-thousand dollars.…
2001-12-21 UN Fishing Treaty
This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. An international treaty to deal with overfishing in the world’s oceans went into effect last week. The treaty establishes new rules for…
2001-11-30 Solar Energy in San Francisco
This is the VOA Special English Environment Report. Voters in San Francisco, California have approved a plan to increase the use of renewable energy. The energy proposal won seventy-three percent…
2001-11-23 Population and the Environment
This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. A new report says the growing population around the world is harming the environment. More people are using more of the Earth’s…
2001-11-09 Orcas Threatened
This is the VOA Special English Environment Report. Scientists are worried about orca whales in the waters of the northwest Pacific Ocean. These huge black and white sea creatures spend…
2001-11-16 Marrakech Agreement
This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. Negotiators from more than one-hundred-sixty countries have agreed on an international treaty to control global warming. Almost four-thousand delegates attended the two-week…
2001-11-02 Earth’s Magnetic Field Helps Turtles
This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. American scientists have found strong evidence that baby sea turtles are born with the ability to recognize and measure Earth’s magnetic fields.…
2001-10-12 Elephant Relocation
This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. South Africa has begun an effort to move one-thousand elephants to nearby Mozambique. The operation is designed to reduce the elephant population…
2001-08-03 African Dust Storms
This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. Researchers in the United States say dust clouds from dry African deserts may be a threat to the environment and human health.…
2001-10-26 Wellbeing of Nations Study
This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. A new report about the condition of the population and the environment around the world was released earlier this month in Washington,…
2001-10-19 Great Lakes Clean Themselves
This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. Scientists say they have evidence that the world’s biggest freshwater lake system is cleaning itself of pollutants. North America’s Great Lakes hold…
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.…