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文字稿 英国国家打击犯罪调查局（National Crime Agency）警告，相关商务及执法部门在打击网络罪犯中处于劣势，因为网络犯罪团伙的技术实力在不断赶超相关部门处理这类威胁的能力。请听 Sangita Mysta 的报道。 According to the National Crime Agency, a key threat to the UK comes from a few hundred international criminal gangs. It says some…

文字稿 研究人员说，人类活动使亚马逊雨林变得更易燃。这是由一项关于巴西亚马逊地区的研究所得出的结论之一，该结论表明即使是被保护的丛林也会受到影响。这项调查的成果已在《自然》期刊上发布。请听 Victoria Gill 的报道。 (sound) The sound of burning rainforest. This is from footage captured by researchers in the Eastern Amazon. Their two-year study found that even selective logging…

文字稿 野生动物专家试图转移500头生活在非洲马拉维两个野生保护园区内的大象。此迁徙计划从下月开始，目的是为了帮助增加野生大象的总数。以下是 Richard Hamilton 的报道。 A century ago there were five million elephants in Africa. Today there are fewer than 470,000. Populations have been decimated by habitat loss and poaching.…

文字稿 专家们说没有充足的证据能证明饮用咖啡会增加患癌症的风险，从而降低了咖啡致癌的风险级别。过去，有专家曾指出咖啡和膀胱癌之间有所关联，但其实并没有足够的证据来证明咖啡到底是否是“致癌物质”。以下是 Adam Brimelow 的报道。 The decision to reclassify coffee was taken after a review of more than a thousand studies carried out by the International Agency for Research on…

文字稿 研究人员发现，在开车时使用手机免提功能通话和拿着手机通话对驾驶员注意力的干扰不相上下。主要研究人员称，此研究结果为禁止在开车时使用任何方式接听电话提供了充分的证据。以下是 Richard Westcott 的报道。 You might think that going hands-free in the car is much safer than holding the phone in your hand. This research suggests that, although it’s…

文字稿 考古学家透露他们在伦敦挖掘出了一批罗马木板，这其中包括英国有史以来最古老的手写文献。以下是 David Sillito 的报道。 “Londinio Mogontio” – “To Mogontius in London”. It’s not a long address but it didn’t have to be. In and around AD50, London was a…

文字稿 一项政府报告透露，美国核武器部队仍在使用七十年代时兴的计算机系统及软盘。以下是 Gary O’Donoghue 的报道。 You may have thought the floppy disk was now an historical artefact. But it turns out it’s alive and well within the US Defence Department…

文字稿 一项由英国政府委托调研的报告结果显示，如果人们再不行动起来对抗“超级病菌”的话，那么到 2050 年，平均每三秒钟，超级病菌就会夺走一个人的生命。此报告建议减少各类抗生素的使用。以下是 Fergus Walsh 的报道。 In the two years this review has taken, the team involved estimates around a million people worldwide have died from drug-resistant infections but…

文字稿 伦敦一家公司的前台接待员因拒绝穿高跟鞋上班被告知需离开公司回家去，而且不发当天的工资。此举引起了一场就强制办公室着装要求的讨论。以下是 Catriona Renton 的报道。 Nicola Thorp was on her first day working for the management consultancy PwC in central London. She was told by her employment agency Portico that…

文字稿 科学家说他们现在已经对引起乳腺癌的几乎全部基因突变有了近乎完美的认识。这项发表在《自然》期刊上的研究结果被称为具有“里程碑”意义的时刻，因为此研究结果可以帮助解锁治疗乳腺癌和防止乳腺癌发病的新手段。以下是 James Gallagher 的报道。 To understand the causes of cancer, scientists have to know what goes wrong in our DNA – our blueprint of life – that transforms healthy…

文字稿 一家领先的医学机构说，吸烟者应被鼓励使用电子香烟来帮助他们最终戒烟。英国皇家内科医学院解释说，吸电子香烟比吸传统烟草要安全很多。以下是 Adam Brimelow 的报道。 The growing popularity of e-cigarettes has prompted debate about their safety, their potential to help people quit tobacco smoking and the risk they may encourage…

文字稿 在印度，至少有3.3亿国民遭受严重干旱的影响。印度政府已将灾情告知最高法院，并发出警告称受灾人数还会增加。请听 BBC Gill McGivering 发回的报道。 The government says about 330 million people are now affected by drought and that number may rise as more states submit reports. It’s a…

文字稿 健康专家呼吁厂商改良食品标签，在包装上标出人们要想消耗食物所含热量，需要做多少运动。英国皇家公共卫生协会在《英国医学杂志》上发表的文章中提到，该提议能够帮助降低肥胖率。以下是 Dominic Hughes 的报道。 Food and drink packaging already contains information such as calories, salt and sugar content, but the Royal Society of Public Health believes many people find…

文字稿 根据世界卫生组织的报告，大约每十一个成人中就有一个人患糖尿病。统计数字显示，全世界每年有150万人因患糖尿病而死亡。以下是 BBC Krista Beighton 的报道： The World Health Organisation says we are facing an unrelenting march of diabetes cases. In a major report it warns that cases rose from…

文字稿 有证据显示澳大利亚的大堡礁正遭受有记录以来最严重的珊瑚白化现象，科学家们再次呼吁联合国将其列入世界濒危遗产名录。请听 BBC Jon Donnison 的报道。 The Great Barrier Reef is considered one of the seven wonders of the natural world. But the study from Australia’s National Coral Bleaching Taskforce…