Hurricane Sandy Reignites Climate Change Debate Hurricane Sandy cut power to about 8 million homes, shut down 70 percent of East Coast oil refineries, and will exceed, economists say, the $15 billion worth of damage caused last year when Hurricane Ir...
EXPLORATIONS - Edwin Hubble Changed Our Ideas About the Universe and Its Birth EXPLORATIONS -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. Today, Richard Rael and Tony Riggs tell the story of American astronomer Edwin Hubble. He changed our...
Change Your Life In 5 Easy Steps Lately, Ive been working on changing my life. I do this a lot. Its good to change, and youve only got so many years to reinvent yourself left. Change can seem intimidating. Impossible. Insurmountable. Here are five wa...
Science in the News - Music Classes in Childhood May Lead to Changes in the Brain This is Science in the News, in VOA Special English. Im Christopher Cruise. Today we tell about experiments at a major university in the central United States. Northwes...
Analysts: US Presidential Debate a 'Game Changer' During a contentious 90-minute encounter in Denver, Colorado a crisp-speaking and seemingly well-rehearsed Mitt Romney repeatedly attacked the president's record, while Obama was often on the defensiv...
Burma Working to Change Image At the airport in Rangoon this week, supporters waited for Thein Sein, already proclaiming his U.N. visit a success. I came here to welcome Mr. President because I love the speech he gave at U.N. I think I should welcome...
Somalis in US Optimistic About Changes Back Home After taking office this week, Mohamud said he is ready to lead. The former professor and longtime civil society activist defeated incumbent Sharif Sheikh Ahmed by a legislative vote of 190 to 79 votes...
Tree Deaths Linked to Climate Change Stanford University graduate student William Anderegg has seen this forest die-off firsthand. His doctoral thesis documents the impact of drought on trembling aspen, the most common tree in North America. These ar...
Burmese Migrants in Thailand Await Changes Back Home In Thailand there are more than a million registered Burmese migrant workers. The number of unregistered is even greater, and many of them work jobs that Thai laborers are often unwilling to do. Wo...
US Drought Linked to Climate Change Parched earth In Texas, the earth is parched. Rivers have dried up, and pasture land has turned brown from the heat. Its been this way since January 2011. The southwestern state is the fourth largest producer of ri...