World Pledges $780 Million for New Shell for Chernobyl Nuclear Plant The Fukushima factor reaches around the world to help raise funds for a new containment shell for the stricken nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, Ukraine. One week before the 25th an...
Japan Still Struggling to Control Crippled Nuclear Plant Small and peaceful anti-nuclear protests continue to be staged in Japan. The demonstrations are being held as troubles continue at and around the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant in the northeas...
Government officials in Japan say it could take months for radiation(放射辐射) leaks to be brought under control at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The Fukushima Daiichi plant continues to spew radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean...
Japan has confirmed radiation contamination of some agricultural products near a nuclear power plant crippled by last week's earthquake and tsunami that is still spewing radiation. In what is likely to deal a heavy blow to agriculture in the Tohoku r...
岸边竹的知识介绍(英汉) There is a plant, tenacity and persistence, tall and straight up. What do you think it is? Of! This is the home I remember the small stream that bamboo fascinating. Next to the bamboo forest streams, g...
There was a man who had worked at a factory for twenty years. Every night when he left the plant, he would push a wheelbarrow full of straw to the guard at the gate. 有个男人在工厂工作了20年,每个晚上当他离开工厂的时候,他都...
Jack and the Bean Plant I Once there was a poor woman. She had one son, whose name was Jack. Jack had no father; a giant had killed him. Jack's mother had one cow, whose milk they sold. They had no money but the money which they got for the milk. One...
By Carol Pearson Washington 13 May 2008 Plants have historically played an important role in medicine. And large parts of the world still rely on plant medicine. Now leading scientists are studying herbal medicine to see if it can equal or surpass me...
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 20 December 2007 The director of the Russian company building Iran's nuclear power station at Bushehr says the facility will not begin operations before the end of 2008. VOA Correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports from Moscow. T...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 28 November 2007 The Indonesian government says it has planted 79 million trees in a single day across the sprawling archipelago as part of a global campaign to plant one billion trees. As VOA's Nancy-Amelia Collins re...