新加坡将废除国有公寓禁猫令 Sunny is a proud Singaporean citizen who follows the laws of her country. Mostly, anyway. 桑妮是一名自豪的新加坡公民，她遵守自己国家的法律。至少大多数情况下是这样的。 For t...
2024年世界人口超80亿 A U.S. government agency says the world's population grew by about 75 million people in 2023. 美国一家政府机构表示，2023年世界人口增加了约7500万人。 The U.S. Census Bureau notes the worldwide growth...
Official population data show more men live in the western United States, while more women live in the East and South. 官方人口数据显示，更多的男性生活在美国西部，而更多的女性生活在东部和南部。 The data was collec...
Officials Plan to End Monkey Invasion in Thai City Wildlife officials in Thailand released a plan on Wednesday to bring peace to a central city after at least 10 years of human-monkey conflict. The macaques that live in Lopburi are a symbol of local...
World Central Kitchen Saves Lives with Food 慈善机构员工在加沙空袭中遇难 Seven World Central Kitchen workers died in an Israeli airstrike on April 1 in Gaza. The killings disrupted a flow of badly needed food into Gaza, as international...
Limited Water Affects People around the World People around the world are worried that water for drinking, cooking and cleaning is getting harder to find. Many believe changes in their climate are affecting their ability to get water. The problem exi...
US Prisoners Suing to Watch Total Eclipse after Lockdown Order Prisoners in the U.S. state of New York have taken legal action against the state corrections department. They started the measure over the state's decision to lock down prisons during ne...
UN Estimates World Wastes 19 Percent of Its Food 联合国估计全球每年浪费19%的食物 A United Nations report says that even with hunger being a problem, the world wastes about 19 percent of the food it produces. 联合国的一份报告称，...
Bamboo farming is on the rise in Uganda. The strong and fast-growing crop is seen by the East African government as having real growth possibility. Along a 3-kilometer stretch of the river Rwizi, environment protection officers recently planted new b...
Debate over Whether Protections Could Have Saved Baltimore Bridge In 2007, when a 274-meter-long container ship struck the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, it stood firm. No one died, either on the ship or the road above. The bridge's supports were...
Cherry Trees to Be Removed in Washington Improvement Project Washington D.C. officials say some of the city's famous cherry trees will need to be cut down as part of a major improvement project. Up to 1.5 million people are expected to visit America'...
Small Living Space Returns as Housing Prices Rise in US Barbara Peraza-Garcia is from Venezuela. She lives in a single-room apartment in Seattle, Washington with her family. The family includes her partner and their two small children. They do not ha...
Coffee Growers Worry about New EU Anti-deforestation Rules Coffee growers in many countries are worried about a new European rule designed to prevent deforestation. Deforestation describes when developers cut down trees to make room for crops, buildi...
Kenyans Build Sand Dams to Keep Water In southeastern Kenya earlier this year, people from Kasengela village built a special kind of dam. The barrier is called a sand dam. It reduces water flow and increases the amount of wet sand behind it. Sand dam...
Ship Crash Collapses Major Highway Bridge in Baltimore A container ship smashed into a major bridge in Baltimore, Maryland early Tuesday, causing it to collapse. The accident sent several vehicles and people into the river and closed one of the busie...
