At the top of the world, under the ice, lies a large number of natural resources. Gas, coal, uranium and other minerals, even diamonds, sit under the ice inside the Arctic Circle. As climate change pushes the cold and ice farther north each year, dis...
Junior Alvarado was worried when he began his first year at a public charter high school in Washington, DC. He often struggled in his math classes and earned poor grades in middle school. But the teachers at the Washington Leadership Academy used com...
Houston, a city in the American state of Texas, will face worsening flooding conditions as Tropical Storm Harvey continues to rain on the city. On Friday, Harvey, the strongest storm to strike Texas in 50 years, came ashore near Corpus Christi, about...
On the eastern side of the Arabian Peninsula, the desert turns green as clouds cover it like a blanket. This is the country of Oman's monsoon season. The natural event, which lasts for three months, draws hundreds of thousands of tourists with cool w...
This is Whats Trending Today. The MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night in Los Angeles included performances by popular musicians of the last 12 months. A number of musicians also denounced racism and discrimination after recent violence in Charlott...
More Americans Died From Drugs Than Ever Before From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语健康和生活报道。 In 2016, more than 60,000 people died in the United States because of drugs. Tha...
Native American tribes want to begin growing and selling marijuana. They hope it will help end poverty on reservations, the large areas where many Native Americans live. However, there is uncertainty about the future of US marijuana policy. Cannabis...
Researchers Use Brain Cells to Control Aging in Mice It is a question people have been asking forwell-- ages. Is there a way to turn back the aging process in people? For centuries, people have been looking for a fountain of youth. The idea is that i...
VOA Learning English presents Americas Presidents. Today we are talking about William Howard Taft, who took office in 1909. In some ways, the story of Tafts presidency is also a story about Theodore Roosevelts presidency. Roosevelt had been president...
Japan Not Worried About Robots Taking Their Jobs In a factory near Tokyo, thousands of cans are filled with beer, capped, washed, and put into boxes at speeds of 1,500 cans a minute. However, there are hardly any people in sight as the cans speed thr...
A New Use for Old Books Some people are using old books to create works of art, including sculptures. 有人用旧书来做艺术品，比如雕塑。 They can change the shape of a hardcover book so it becomes three-dimensional, for example. The res...
At most American colleges, teachers give students grades that evaluate their performance in class. The grades range from A to F with A the highest and F signaling failure. But some colleges do not use grades. Instead, teachers write reports on what t...
Experts: US Would Not Need South Korea's OK to Strike North South Korea's President Moon Jae-in says military action against North Korea cannot be carried out without his government's permission. However, former United States military commanders have...
Old Airplanes Left in Elephants Shelter Get New Homes Over 100 years ago, Britains military had about 2,000 de Havilland DH.9 airplanes. The military used the planes for British bombing raids over Germany during World War I. The DH.9s were known as s...
Blue Crabs: A Messy Meal from the Chesapeake Bay What have ten legs, two of them large claws, a hard shell cover, and live in oceans, fresh water, and on land? Crabs, of course! There are thousands of different kinds of crabs all over the world. They...
