2012-01-10 The Moving Story of Plate Tectonics
FAITH LAPIDUS: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Faith Lapidus. BOB DOUGHTY: And I’m Bob Doughty. Scientists who study the Earth tell us the continents…
2012-01-03 A Soft Body, but the Mind of a Robot
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Shirley Griffith. STEVE EMBER: And I’m Steve Ember. Today, we tell about soft-bodied robots — robots that…
2001-12-17 Clean Water Campaign
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The United Nations says more than one-thousand-million people in the world do not have safe, clean water to drink. This is about…
2001-12-10 Mutated Gene Protects Against Malaria
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. African and Italian scientists have discovered strong evidence that a changed gene for red blood cells protects against the disease malaria. The…
2001-12-03 World Bank-IMF Aid to Poor Nations
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The leaders of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank have promised to help poor countries whose economies have been hurt by…
2001-11-26 WTO Agreement on Drug Patents
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Developing countries won a major victory at the World Trade Organization meeting earlier this month in Doha, Qatar. The battle was over…
2001-11-19 Heifer International
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. One of the biggest problems in developing countries is hunger. An organization called Heifer International is working to improve this situation. The…
2001-11-12 HIV in Asia
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Health ministers from almost all Asian and Pacific countries have promised to provide more resources to fight AIDS and H-I-V, the virus…
2001-11-05 Nutrition Study in Ivory Coast
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A new study has found that women in parts of western Africa need more energy than men because of the amount of…
2001-10-29 WHO and Drug Resistance
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Health Organization has called for immediate action to stop the growing threat of drug resistance around the world. Gro Harlem…
2001-10-22 WHO Report on Mental Illness
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Health Organization has published a new report on mental health. It says that one out of every four people in…
2001-10-15 Food Assistance in Asia
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The number of people receiving food assistance in Asia rose to a new record high during the first half of this year.…
2001-10-08 Yellow Fever in Ivory Coast
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Health Organization has launched a campaign to prevent yellow fever from spreading in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Health officials say at…
2001-10-01 Africa/Hospice Care
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund was established in September, Nineteen-Ninety-Seven. For its fourth anniversary, the British-based organization is launching a…
2001-09-24 Internet in Malaysia
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Malaysia has developed a program to help bring technology to schools around the country. It is a traveling bus equipped with twenty…