2008-11-13 中国沙漠化危机
The farmland of Wang Yang-tang in Hubei province lies abandoned. Over the last century, sand has devoured the rich pastures. As sand dunes edge closer to Beijing each year, Northern China's rapidly turning into desert. Shen Zhao-xiang, the director
2008-11-15 绿色养牛法
The Underhill Farm in Somerset, England, is the picture of rural tranquility. But the lush green pastures disguise the fact that farms like this are contributing to global warming. That's because just one cow can produce up to 500 liters of methane
2008-11-17 埃及艳后
Her name is synonymous with beauty, power, intrigue and ultimately tragedy. In 69 BC, Cleopatra was born into Egypt's Ptolemaic Dynasty, a dynasty in decline and under the protection of Rome. At the age of 18, she assumed the throne along with her y
2008-11-20 三岁女童成尼泊尔活女神
A three-year-old girl is now a new living goddess in Nepal. At a recent religious ceremony, the new Kumari or living goddess was carried from her parents' home to an ancient palatial temple in the heart of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu where she'll
2008-11-22 地下镇Coober Pedy
Beneath the hot-skillet surface of the outback where the baked soil crumbles like ashes, there are treasures to be found. In endless warrens of burrowing and hole, every hour of every day, you can find people digging. And virtually all of these indi
2008-11-24 浪漫之滨里约热内卢
In Rio de Janeiro Brazil, where the mountains meet the beach, with six million residents and more than a million tourists a year, a cleanup of the beaches from past years is now a major issue. Until recently, the beach was a place for Cariocas, as R
2008-11-27 澳洲岩画艺术
Long before the land grew roads and towns, long before the first Westerners arrived, long before humans here even had a word for art, the rock artists of Australia were drawing the Dreamtime. The Dreamtime for the aboriginal people is their story of
2008-11-29 以色列发现最古老希伯莱文字
An Israeli archeologist in Jerusalem believes a ceramic shard found in the ruins of an ancient town bears the oldest Hebrew inscription ever discovered. The site overlooks the Elah Valley, said to be the scene of the slingshot showdown between David
2008-12-01 亚马逊雨林的生命树之果
Across the river from Belem Brazil, the largest city in the Amazon Basin, the channels are busy with boat traffic. Here traditional river dwellers make a living by harvesting the black fruit of the thin acai palm tree. In this part of the Amazon, ac
2008-12-04 火星也下雪？
NASA scientists report NASAs Phoenix spacecraft has discovered evidence of past water at its Martian landing site and spotted falling snow for the first time on Mars. Soil experiments reveal the presence of two minerals known to be formed in liquid
2008-12-06 墨西哥“水怪” 濒临灭绝
Beneath the tourist gondolas on Lake Xochimilco in Mexico lives a creature that resembles a monster. Known as the water monster or Mexican walking fish, the axolotl is type of salamander. The Ambystoma Mexicano, this species, is the axolotl of Xochi
2008-12-08 古罗马帝国的“宝石”
Archeologists are hoping to attract tourists to one of the jewels of the Roman Empire. Viminacium was the most important city in the Roman province of Upper Moesia. The city was located in what is today, Serbia. It's believed the Romans first conque
2008-12-11 白狮子回归自然
White lions are roaming the African plains once again. Over the past decades, few sightings were reported of these rare big cats in their natural environments. And South African white lions could only be seen in breeding programs and circuses. Now t
2008-12-13 太阳能墓园
Catalans are famous throughout Spain for their spirit of innovation. That ingenuity has recently been extended to the creation of what, the Associated Press reports, is the Barcelonan area's largest solar energy plant. The solar panels have been ins
2008-12-15 重现人间的斑驴
The plains zebra is a close relative of the quagga, extinct since 1883. But according to members of the Quagga Project in Cape Town, South Africa. The foal seen running with its herd of plains zebras is a quagga. His name's Harley and he was born in
