Efforts Mount to Conserve Wild Turkey Breeds A sprinkle of corn, and Rachel Summers' turkeys come running. She raises a small flock of a breed called Standard Bronze at Crowfoot Farm, about an hour from Washington. These are birds with history, Summe...
TECHNOLOGY REPORT - Mobile Phones Could Help Efforts to End Malaria 科技报道 - 手机可能有助于终结疟疾 From VOA Learning English, this is the TECHNOLOGY REPORT in Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。 Researc...
Effort Underway to Boost US Voter Participation Shakei Haynes is helping college students register to vote in the November election. He's been doing this since 2005 when he was 16-years-old. Now he's a political science student at Howard University i...
Angola Still Riddled With Landmines, Despite Efforts Cautiously, meter after meter, a deminer checks if the ground is clear of mines and unexploded devices. He is working on a demining zone operated by the NGO Norwegian People's Aid five hours east o...
CHENGDU, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- A senior Taiwan affairs official for the Chinese mainland has called for those representing grassroots public opinion on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to make more efforts to promote cross-Strait exchanges at the civili...
Groups Resisting Global Polio Vaccination Efforts Health officials in Pakistan say they are redoubling efforts to vaccinate every child against polio after 198 new cases were reported in the country last year, the largest number anywhere in the world...
BEIJING, June 9 (Xinhua) -- China is moving to better protect its 2,500-year-old Grand Canal by encouraging public donations and banning unnecessary construction in the area. The Ministry of Culture publicized a set of regulations to protect the Gran...
Immunization Week Highlights Efforts to Save Lives Worldwide Haiti, Nigeria, Ghana -- 180 countries in all -- stepped up their immunization drives against deadly childhood infections to mark World Immunization Week. The GAVI Alliance -- a Geneva base...
SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Group Announces New Effort to Solve the Mystery of Amelia Earhart's Final Flight MARIO RITTER: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im Mario Ritter. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And Im Shirley Griffith. Today, we tell about...
World Bank Urges Greater HIV Prevention Efforts The World Bank says significantly better HIV prevention efforts are needed in Africa. It says a slow global economy and uncertain donor aid make preventing new infections a necessity. A new World Bank r...