Proposed Living Space at California University Causes Big Debate Businessman Charles Munger recently gave $200 million to the University of California at Santa Barbara, known as UCSB, to help pay for a new student living space. At colleges, students...
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. Let's start today's program with a riddle. What follows you all day long, but when the night or rain comes, it is gone? If you said your shadow, you are right! This dark, flat image of your...
Community Built for Foreigners in Dubai to Be Torn Down Jebel Ali Village, in Dubai, is a group of homes built in the late 1970s for European port workers. It has largely stayed the same over the years. Foreign residents still walk along quiet roads...
US to Identify Projects for Build Back Better World Effort American officials are visiting countries around the world to identify 50 projects for President Joe Biden's Build Back Better World effort. The B3W, as it is called, is an international part...
Parents in the Philippines are finding some creative ways to get their children outside to play as pandemic restrictions continue. One of those children is two-year-old Nathania Ysobel Alesna. On a recent day in the capital Manila, Nathania played ou...
Losing Glaciers Will Hurt Tourism and Power Supplies As worldwide temperatures continue to rise, thick sheets of ice called glaciers are going away. Some are melting, while others are evaporating. This will hurt the people and nations that depend on...
Vatican Library Opens to Public with New Art Space The Apostolic Library in Vatican City is home to ancient writings, rare books and reading rooms. 梵蒂冈图书馆收藏有古代著作、珍本，并设有阅览室。 Now, it is opening a small ne...
An 89-year-old man from the American state of Rhode Island has reached a goal he spent 20 years working toward and nearly a lifetime thinking about. He earned his doctorate, or Ph.D., and became a physicist. 美国罗德岛州一位89岁的老人实现...
Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher we answer a question from Ygor in Brazil. Question: Hello guys! My name is Ygor and I'd like to say you all are amazing, fantastic, superb, etc. I just love this channel ... but the preposition about is just killing...
Father and Son Aim to Stop Ice Melt in One of Earths Coldest Places Scientist Sergey Zimov has long studied the frozen ground, or permafrost, in one of Earth's coldest places, about 130 kilometers south of Russia's Arctic coast. It has been melting f...
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. Outside of the city of Denver, Colorado, a large industrial building sits between an auto repair business and a used computer business. In that building, a man deals daily with life and...
F.W. de Klerk, South Africa's last apartheid president who oversaw the end of the country's white minority rule, has died. 南非最后一位种族隔离总统弗雷德里克威廉德克勒克去世，他监督了该国白人少数统治的结束。...
Natural Gas Costs Force Nigerians Back to Wood Cooking Fuel Nigerians have been lining up to buy Adunni Abdul's black-eyed peas called moimoi in a market in Lagos for more than 10 years. Five years ago, she started to cook them in leaves using liquid...
Adele Teaches You English Grammar Easy On Me, by British singer and songwriter Adele, has been at the top of Billboard's The Hot 100 and Global 200 lists this week. In today's Everyday Grammar, we will explore how the emotional song can teach you abo...
The American space agency NASA is seeking help from the public to identify important images captured by Mars explorers. The project is designed to help teach an artificial intelligence, AI, system to recognize different scientific elements seen in th...
