This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Experts say that agriculture provides fourteen percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions each year. The gases released include carbon dioxide, a major cause of global warming. Twenty-one natio...
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA IN VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. One of the world's great natural wonders is in the state of New Mexico, in the American Southwest. Nature has created huge moving hills of pure white sand. These sand du...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Health Organization is using a new combination of drugs to treat human African trypanosomiasis disease, also known as sleeping sickness. The drugs nifurtimox an eflornithine will be given...
VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today, we begin the story of the life of a famous Southern writer, William Faulkner. He wrote about an imaginary place and described changes i...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. At the end of each year, editors and news directors of the Associated Press in the United States vote for the top ten news stories of the year. They named the American economy as the top news story of two t...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Faith Lapidus. Happy New Year! Before we look ahead to two thousand ten, we want to talk about some of the best movies and books of two thousand nine. And we play some great music w...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Two thousand nine may be remembered as the year the world avoided an economic depression. In the United States, stock prices sank to their lowest levels in March. But stocks recovered strongly for the...
