VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, we will tell about one explanation for many trees dying in the western United States. We will tell about a project to make e...
Southeastern Australia has endured some of the hottest temperatures in a century, which have fanned fires that have destroyed homes and strained emergency power and transport services. At least 20 people may have died from heat stroke as temperature...
By David McAlary Washington 18 January 2007 International public health officials say the number of deaths from measles has dropped sharply in developing nations since 1999, with the biggest decline in Africa. VOA's David McAlary has more on the sto...
By Peta Thornycroft Harare 17 February 2006 Martin Mhizha fetches water from an unprotected water source in Epworth, Zimbabwe In Zimbabwe's capital Harare, for the first time in most people's memory p...