Aluminum Cans or Plastic Bottles? The bottled water industry is increasing efforts to replace plastic bottles with more easily recycled aluminum containers, or cans. The effort follows public anger about reports that plastic water bottles are severel...
A Graduate's Dream Job: Helping Rats Save Lives From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. 这里是VOA慢速英语健康生活报道。 When people hear the word rat, they may think of dirty animals that spread disease. 人们在听...
Blind Man Given a Chance to See A new device is helping those who are blind to see. It does this in a new way by helping them experience the world around them. 盲人在一种新设备的帮助下重见光明。它以一种新的方式帮助盲人体验...
Air Pollution May Affect Every Organ, Cell in the Body From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. 这里是VOA慢速英语健康生活报道。 Taking a long, deep breath is good for both our bodies and minds. It supplies necessa...
Imagine you are reading or listening to an American news story. Perhaps it is a health and lifestyle story. Diabetes is a serious, chronic disease on the rise around the world... Over time, diabetes can damage the heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys...
Americans: Our Education System Is a Major Concern A majority of Americans say they are not satisfied with the nations education system. They also have little hope that public schools will improve anytime soon. That information comes from a public op...
Have you ever noticed something strange about sentences involving prices or distances? Do you ever wonder why Americans use expressions like $50 is too much! or Ten miles is really far? In todays Everyday Grammar, we will explore unusual cases of wha...
South Sudanese Teacher Working with Refugees of All Ages Teacher Koat Reath is a refugee from South Sudan. His students are, too. They smile as they sing along with him in their classroom. Koat and his students are living at the Jewi refugee camp in...
Don't Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch Hello and welcome to Words and Their Stories. Each week, we tell the story of English language words and expressions some old, and others new. Today we talk about a proverb often used in American English. A...
Arlette Kavugho was released from an Ebola treatment center in eastern Congo in March, but her problems did not go away. The mother of six children tried to return to work in her hometown of Butembo. Kavugho has a job as a seamstress. She makes cloth...
Syrian Unrest Breathes Life into Islamic State Militant Group Officials are warning that Turkey's offensive into northeastern Syria might be giving the militant group Islamic State new life. However, American counterterrorism officials say the group'...
Afghan Museum Repairs Buddhist Art, One Broken Piece at a Time Experts trying to restore Afghanistans Buddhist treasures say it is like working on a 1,500-year-old puzzle. 尝试修复阿富汗佛教藏品的专家们说，这就像是在解开一个有...
Freddy Brito had just finished singing on a bus in Perus capital. He was crossing a street on his one good leg when the driver of a taxi sped up and turned his car toward the singer. Veneco! the driver shouted, using an insulting term for Venezuelans...
Women's Influence Growing in US Men's Professional Basketball Training is over for the day, but one Boston Celtics basketball team coach is still working. 当天的训练已经结束，但是波士顿凯尔特人篮球队的一名教练还在工作。...
Canada's Justin Trudeau Wins Second Term, Loses Majority Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won a second term in national elections Monday. 周一，加拿大总理贾斯汀特鲁多（Justin Trudeau）在大选中赢得连任。 His Liberal Part...
