Companies Try Natural Gas to Fuel Vehicles HOUSTON, TEXAS While many Americans want to reduce both pollution and energy costs, the nation's automobile-based transportation system undermines these goals by being largely dependent on petroleum. But in...
Natural Disasters Displace 32 Million in 2012 A new report says more than 32-million people were forced to flee their homes in 2012 due to natural disasters. Most of the displacement occurred in developing countries, but even rich nations, like the U...
EXPLORATIONS - Dry Tortugas National Park Is Deep In History, Natural Beauty FAITH LAPIDUS: Im Faith Lapidus. CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: And Im Christopher Cruise with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we visit one of the most unusual nati...
Technology Developed in Texas Expands Natural Gas Production LEAM Drilling Systems, in Conroe, Texas, runs its trucks on compressed natural gas, or CNG. LEAM Vice President Scott Bradley said cheap natural gas makes the company's 18 CNG trucks a good...
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By Tabinda Naeem Washington, DC 29 September 2006 watch Natural Museum report The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest museum complex. Its 17 museums display many of the treasured icons of America's past, the vibrant arts of the present an...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 30 January 2006 Former President George Bush, right, with an earthquake survivor from Leepa Valley of Pakistani Kashmir during his visit to quake survivors' tented village in Is...
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EXPLORATIONS - One of the World’s Natural Wonders: the Grand Canyon By Oliver Chanler Broadcast: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Shirley Griff...