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一角鲸是一种头上长有长牙的海洋哺乳动物。专家表示，随着气候变暖，海冰融化，船舶航线增多，海洋噪声增加，到2025年，一角鲸有可能会因海洋噪音污染而灭绝。本期 “随身英语” 介绍这种被人称作 “海洋独角兽” 的动物所面临的生存威胁。 词汇：marine animals 海洋动物 Of all the creatures on the planet, the narwhal is one of the strangest looking. It’s a whale which has a large protruding tusk coming out of…
本集内容 How can you cut down your waste? 如何在日常生活中减少浪费？ 文字稿 (Source: World Bank)Humans create two billion tonnes of waste each year. （数据来源: 世界银行）人类每年制造20亿吨垃圾。 So, how can you cut down the…
本集内容 Five of the world’s most endangered animals 世界五大极度濒危动物 文字稿 Here are five of the world’s most critically endangered animals. 下面介绍世界五大极度濒危动物。 The Amur leopard is one of the world’s rarest…
（节目中的数据统计日期截至2023年5月） 本集内容 Is coffee disappearing? 未来会不会喝不到咖啡？ 文字稿 Is your morning cup of coffee about to disappear? 你会不会就要喝不到每天清晨的那杯咖啡了？ The world is facing a coffee crisis, and it’s all about demand outweighing…
本集内容 Can loneliness harm your health? 孤独是否损害健康？ 文字稿 Can loneliness harm your health? 孤独会损害健康吗？ We all feel lonely sometimes. It’s normal, and not something to worry about. 我们都有孤独的时候。偶尔感到孤独很正常，并不用担心。 Source: WHOBut…
本集内容 What is a World Heritage Site? 什么是世界遗产？ 文字稿 What do these places have in common? 这些地方有什么共同点？ The Great Wall of China, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, the Egyptian Pyramids, and…
本集内容 The experiment that started 144 years ago 持续144年的科学实验 文字稿 Every 20 years, a team of scientists at Michigan State University go out in the dead of night, follow an…
本集内容 Botswana’s female polers changing gender stereotypes 博茨瓦纳女性撑篙手改变性别刻板印象 文字稿 Cindy Mothogaathobogwe, Mokoro boat poler“People used to believe that there are men’s jobs and women’s jobs. But now, things are changing. Slowly,…
1987年2月，一颗恒星在银河系附近的一个星系中爆炸，尽管当时使用了强大的望远镜进行观测，但仍无法确认爆炸留下的碎片中心是哪一种天体。然而，现在科学家们表示他们已经揭开了恒星爆炸或超新星爆炸残余物的神秘面纱。 The supernova was visible from Earth for four months, shining with the power of a hundred million Suns. There was so much debris that even the most powerful telescopes could not confirm what remained at…
科学家们已经研究出海洋中一些体型最大的鲸鱼发出令人难忘的复杂叫声的方式，它们的叫声被人们称为 “鲸歌”。座头鲸和其它须鲸体内有一种进化而来的特殊的 “音箱”，使它们能够在水下 “唱歌”。 The humpback’s song sounded so strange and haunting to sailors, they used to think it belonged to ghosts or mythical sea creatures. Now, a study has revealed how…
在英国南威尔士，人们将用马匹来移除森林中的落叶松病木。用马运输树木是一种古老的森林管理方法，这种方法现在再次流行，因为它对健康树木、植物和地面造成的破坏比机器少。 Fforest Fawr is an old woodland area with broadleaf trees and important archaeological features, but there are diseased larch trees that need to be removed. They’ve been individually felled and then dragged out of the forest by a…
考古学家们在苏格兰斯凯岛发现了一个新的翼龙物种。这种独特的飞行爬行动物生活在1.68 – 1.66亿年前。 This flying reptile soared over the heads of dinosaurs when Scotland was part of a sub-tropical island in the Middle Jurassic period. Scientists found its wings, shoulders, leg and…
新研究显示，英格兰的所有树篱连起来共有39万公里长。生态学家们希望这个新数据能使树篱得到更好的保护，因为它们不仅可以为野生动物提供食物和住所，还能吸收并储存大量的碳。 The researchers say if you joined up all the hedgerows in England, they would stretch almost ten times around the Earth. Their map, which is based on laser scanning hedges from the air rather than scaling…
科学家利用卫星图像发现了位于南极洲的四个新的帝企鹅群。这一发现使得白色南极大陆周围已知的帝企鹅筑巢地数量达到66个。 Emperor penguins live in extreme conditions, coming together during the height of the Antarctic winter to breed in distinct groupings. 帝企鹅生活在极端的气候条件下，它们在南极严冬时期聚集在一起，在各自不同的小群落中繁殖。 These colonies tend to be separated from each other by an average of about 150 miles.…
从在地下生长的 “森林” 到绚丽的兰花，邱园（英国皇家植物园林）的科学家们去年发现了74种新植物和15种新真菌。其中，有很多个物种是在意想不到的地方被人发现的。 Scientists from Kew Gardens described almost 100 plants and fungi that were new to science last year, from a red-flowered orchid that grows on the top of an extinct volcano, to lichens clinging to rocks in…