Advice, Modals, and Coronavirus In recent months, health experts have released many statements on the new coronavirus that was first identified in China. These statements often include suggestions on how people can slow the spread of the virus. Today...
For more than 20 years, nuclear waste in the United States has been stored at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southern New Mexico. The waste is placed deep inside large salt caves. Trucks usually bring several shipments a week of materials contami...
The worldwide coronavirus pandemic is affecting nearly every area of modern life, and that includes higher education. Many colleges and universities around the world have closed. Hundreds of schools in the United States have moved their classes on li...
The economic effects of the coronavirus could push around half a billion people into poverty, Oxfam said this week. 乐施会本周表示，新冠病毒产生的经济影响可能会让数十亿人陷入贫困。 The report was released by the Nairob...
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. If you are feeling nervous or stressed, a simple thing can help. Take a deep breath. Deep breathing can calm your nerves and lower the chemicals in your body that can lead to stress. If one...
Brazil Neighborhood Hires Own Medical Team to Fight Coronavirus Emerson Barata makes a map of Sao Paulo's largest favela neighborhood, Paraisopolis. He then makes a mark for each known coronavirus case in the area. At the center of the favela of arou...
Experts: Africa Faces Existential Threat from Coronavirus Health officials have predicted that some African countries will have many thousands of coronavirus cases by the end of April. African health care systems are less prepared to treat serious in...
On Easter Sunday, Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli will perform from Milan's empty Duomo cathedral. He will be accompanied only by the cathedral's organist, Emanuele Vianelli. The concert can be seen live on Bocelli's YouTube channel at 1700 UTC....
Today, we begin a series from a book by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. The book is called A Princess of Mars. It is the first book in a series that Burroughs wrote about a man who travels to Mars during the last years of the 1800s. There, the...
Daniel Larrea died recently after several days of high fever and struggling to breathe while slowly turning blue signs of being infected with the new coronavirus. Then his family found an unexpected problem: No one in their city of Quito, Ecuador wou...
This week we answer a question from Rafael. He asks, 本周我们来回复拉斐尔提出的一个问题。他问道： Question: 问题： What's the difference between too and very? Very 和 too 有什么区别？ Answer: 回复： Dear Rafael, 亲爱...
What Americans need most right now, is news about their towns, cities and states. But as coronavirus spreads throughout the country, local newspapers are having a difficult time. Readers want local information. They want to know about cases in their...
Most Christians around the world are observing Holy Week, a period of great importance to the religion. The faithful are finding new, safe ways to share in the event as many churches around the world are closed because of the new coronavirus. Peace L...
The new coronavirus has killed nearly 18,000 people in Italy and nearly 90,000 people worldwide. The World Health Organization says most of those who are dying of the COVID-19 disease are over the age of 60. 新型冠状病毒肺炎已在意大利造成...
Japan's Honda Motor Company has reopened its factory in the Chinese city of Wuhan, more than two months after it was closed to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. 在关闭两个多月以帮助阻止新冠病毒传播之后，日本本田汽车公...
