'One Day on Earth' Delivers Global Message One Day on Earth, a film created by Kyle Ruddick and Brandon Littman, documents one day in the life of humanity from every country on the planet. More than 15,000 people contributed footage from their ethnic...
BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhua) -- China's restrictions on rare earth exports are justified and are in line with World Trade Organization rules, Shen Danyang, spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, said Thursday. The policy aims to protect resources and...
EXPLORATIONS - Blue Holes: Some of the Least Explored Areas on Earth BARBARA KLEIN: Im Barbara Klein. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. A blue hole is a flooded sea cave with a hole that opens up at the lands s...
PlummetingUSSatellitetoHitEarthFriday NASA launched the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) 20 years ago this month. And now that bus-sized satellite is plunging toward Earth. Mark Matney, an orbital debris scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Ce...
BEIJING, June 28 (Xinhuanet) -- A truck-sized asteroid passed over the Atlantic Ocean within 7,500 miles of the Earth on Monday, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The space rock, called asteroid 2011 MD, is the second space rock to zip e...
LOS ANGELES, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Near-Earth asteroid 2011 MD will whip past Earth on June 27, but will not pose any threat, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said on Friday. The asteroid will pass only 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles) above the E...
LOS ANGELES, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Eating earth may protect the stomach against toxins, parasites and pathogens, a new study suggests. To examine the possible benefits from eating earth, researchers at Cornell University analyzed reports from missionari...
Millions of people around the world celebrated Earth Day Friday by pledging to commit personal acts of green to improve the environment(环境). This is the 41st anniversary of the first Earth Day, observed in the United States in the aftermath of a...
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背景：科学家们打算首次尝试深钻地壳直至其下部的地幔。这些科学家们将从太平洋底部开始钻探，以测试这次行动的可行性。他们称深钻至地幔的尝试或将在2018年开始。 They've selected prospe...
