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A fertilizer factory in northern Germany has existed for over 100 years, but its future is uncertain. 德国北部的一家化肥厂已经存在超过100年，但其未来仍不确定。 It made a loss in 2024 and is now working at a lower capacity because of high energy prices. 由于能源价格高企，该工厂在2024年出现亏损，目前正以较低产能运行。 These rising costs and low demand are creating problems for the company, and it is...

Experts are increasingly concerned about a boy crisis in schools across Canada and the world. 专家们越来越关注加拿大及全球学校中正在出现的“男孩危机”。 Data shows that boys are falling behind girls in several key areas. 数据显示，在一些关键领域，男孩正在落后于女孩。 In Quebec, for example, the dropout rate for boys is over 27%, compared to about 20% for girls. 例如在魁北克省，男孩的辍学率超过27%，...

Speculation regarding the existence of extraterrestrial life is increasing following the release of never-before-seen documents on UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects). 随着从未公开过的 UFO（不明飞行物）文件被发布，关于外星生命存在的猜测正在增加。 The Pentagon has declassified and released 161 files containing reports of sightings. The Pentagon已经解密并公布了161份包含目击报告的文件。 These include...

There are signs that a huge part of East Africa is starting to break away from the African continent. 有迹象表明，东非的一大片地区正开始从非洲大陆分离出去。 Geologists (people who study the Earth and its land and rocks) studied a deep crack that runs along a large part of Zambia. 地质学家（研究地球、陆地和岩石的人）研究了一条贯穿赞比亚大部分地区的深裂缝。 The crack is called a rift. 这条裂缝被称为...

The report highlights how people and nature can thrive together, with wildlife across more than 5,000,000 sq miles of protected land remaining on average stable, despite a 73% global decline in monitored population since 1970. 该报告强调，人与自然可以和谐共生，因为在超过 500 万平方英里的受保护土地上，野生动物的种群数量总体保持稳定，尽管自 1970 年以来，全球受监测的野生动物种群数量平均下降了 73%。 B...

What animal do we have the closest relationship with? Many people would say dogs or cats, but it's actually the tiny arachnids that live all over your face. Yes, your face. Don't worry it's probably fine. Demodex mites live in the hair follicles around the peach fuzz hair that grows on your face. They are just one of the parasites that make our bodies a habitat. Some are harmless, while there are...

Shajarina Monie lives in Juba. Six of her nine children have died of various illnesses. Shajarina Monie住在朱巴。她九个孩子中有六个死于各种疾病。 The first one died at nine months; another one died at the age of ten months; another one died when he was crawling about three months. 第一个孩子在九个月大的时候夭折，在十个月大的时候夭折；还有一个在大约三个月刚会爬的时候就夭折了。 Millions of children...

Thirty-five-year-old Fatima, who for privacy did not want to use her family name, says their family lost all their livestock to drought. 35岁的法蒂玛（出于隐私考虑，她不想透露自己的姓氏）表示，家里的牲畜全因旱灾而死。 After moving with her husband and children closer to town to find work, Fatima's husband abandoned her and filed for divorce, but not before assaulting her. 在和丈夫、孩子搬到城里找...

With fireballs in his hands, the Cauldron Group's David Duckworth sets magical potions ablaze. Cauldron酒吧的大卫·达克沃斯手里拿着火球，点燃了魔法药水。 So all the drinks that we have on offer at the Cauldron, the key thing to know about them is that they're all fully interactive. 我们在Cauldron酒吧提供的所有饮品，它们都是可以发生反应的。 So you are able to interact with the various ingredients, a...

So, both along the fault, we like those sensors really close the fault because that gives us really those first motions that are coming out of the earthquake. 这两个传感器都紧贴断层，我们很喜欢紧贴断层的传感器，因为这样能让我们真正捕捉到地震最初的震动情况。 It tells us the earthquake has started. So, once that earthquake started, seismic waves start travelling away from where that earthquake start...

When I was 18 years old, I was in a motor vehicle accident and I sustained a T-12 burst fracture to my spinal cord. It left me paralyzed from the waist down. 18岁时，我出了车祸，胸椎第12节爆裂性骨折，腰部以下瘫痪了。 My friends and I were getting ready to go out to dinner and I had stepped out on to the balcony to make a phone call. 我和朋友们正准备出去吃晚餐，我走到阳台上打电话。 And I went to go...

This new study from Pakistan suggests  synchronising  exercise to match people's natural  sleep-wake cycles  or internal  body clock  could offer the greatest health benefits. 这项来自巴基斯坦的新研究表明，将锻炼时间和个人的睡眠觉醒周期或体内生物钟同步，能给健康带来最多益处。 Volunteers who tried it had better sleep, lower  blood pressure  and healthier bloo...

The tradition of sending greeting cards has withstood the rise of digital communication. Though often inexpensive, cards can convey our thoughts and emotions. Their rich history spreads over centuries of civilisations across the world, building a culture of card giving along its way. 发送贺卡的传统经受住了数字通信的兴起。 尽管卡片通常很便宜，但它可以传达我们的想法和情感。 他们丰富的历史在世界各地...

All women who come here, who don't have legal papers and don't know anyone, 所有来这里的女性可能没有合法的身份证件，也可能不认识任何人， regardless if they have a high school diploma or even a Ph. D, they start braiding hair until they can do something else. 不管她们是高中生还是博士，在学会做别的事情之前都会来这里编辫子。 I was a shopkeeper in Burkina Faso. I used to buy goods there and sell them...

Years ago Jamila Larson saw hundreds of children were living in homeless shelters in Washington D.C. So she decided to seek it for herself. 几年前，贾米拉·拉森(JamilaLarson)看到数百名儿童住在华盛顿特区的收容所受罪，于是她决定亲自去一探究竟。 I really wasn't prepared for what I saw. I saw half-dressed children in the hallway with no toys, rows of metal bunk beds, sheets for doors, no scre...

I have always like being outdoors ever since I was a little kid. 我从小就喜欢户外活动。 It's always been like foraging, you know, just kind of goes along with that, and just like learning about what the plants are and what you can eat. 这就像觅食一样，自然而然了解到这些植物是什么，以及哪些可以食用。 Reading this Native American ethnobotany book, I was just looking up what tribes lived in this regi...

Welcome to Story Time From Space to all of you, in school, at home or at your local library or whatever you may be. 欢迎来到太空故事时间，无论你是在校、在家，还是在当地图书馆，或者在其他任何地方。 Astronaut Christina Koch is reading a book about space exploration and a future mission to Mars, a book carried aboard a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station. 宇航员克里斯蒂娜·科赫正在读一本...

Science is everything. Science is how society accomplishes being a society. 科学就是一切。科学是社会得以成为社会的方式。 Science is how everything gets done. It's how we move forward. It's how all our products get built and made better. 科学是一切得以实现的方式。科学是我们前进的动力。科学是我们制造所有产品并使其不断完善的途径。 We wouldn't be anywhere if we didn't have scientists constantly asking...

This may look like an ordinary plastic straw and it may even be like one too, but it is not made of plastic. 这看起来可能像一根普通的塑料吸管，但它并非由塑料制成。 Cameron Ross started the Celise BioProducts company to produce single-use plastic alternatives from plant materials like these. 卡梅隆·罗斯创立了Celise BioProducts公司，利用这些植物材料生产一次性塑料替代品。 They are made of polylactic...

Across the gallery, mannequin after mannequin is dressed in some of the most memorable outfits of the Queen's life. 展厅内，一个个的立式模特身着女王生前最令人难忘的经典华服。 Her wedding dress has been painstakingly restored, and there are shows of diplomatic dressing. 她的婚纱经过悉心修复，正与她一系列外交场合礼服一同展出。 The 1950s ball gown from her first state visit to America, and a glitteri...

Overpriced shop-bought sandwiches, underwhelming food from your work canteen or pricey local restaurants. If those are the alternatives, then it's unsurprising that many of us think leftovers make the perfect lunch. Leftovers are a good way to cut down on food waste. If you've cooked them yourself, then you can be sure what all the ingredients are and where they've come from. But how safe are left...

If you've been on one of these calls, you've probably experienced people talking over each other. And then, there's this. 如果你参加过这样的电话会议，大概经历过大家互相抢话的情况。然后，就会出现这样的状况。 If someone's dog comes into it or someone stops paying attention, then you might miss what someone is saying. 如果有人的狗闯进来了，或者有人走神了，那么你可能会错过别人正在说的话。 Ryan Ottens'...

Hello everyone, we're excited to see you. The participants do a meet and greet. 大家好，我们很高兴见到你们。参与者见面并打招呼。 Kasmo is a three and a half-year-old golden retriever. 卡斯莫是一只三岁半的金毛猎犬。 Before going into virtual breakout rooms, there, the children read to pal dogs and their owners for 30 minutes, Spending 15 minutes with two different pups. 在进入虚拟分组讨论室之前，孩...

These people can breathe life into pretty much anything: out-of-fashion jeans, boring dresses, torn canvas totes and even car tyres. 这些人几乎能让任何东西焕发生机：过时的牛仔裤、单调的连衣裙、破旧的帆布包，甚至是汽车轮胎。 My necklace was made of tyres, inner tub, recycle, so basically you can touch it. 我的项链是用轮胎内胎回收制成的，你可以摸到它。 Dedication to sustainability and a bi...

On the floor of the North Atlantic Ocean rests one of history's most fantastic failures, the unsinkable RMS Titanic. 在北大西洋海底躺着历史上最引人注目的失败之一——号称“永不沉没”的泰坦尼克号。 The salvage firm RMS Titanic Inc has so far recovered more than 5,000 pieces of dinnerware and coins from the wreckage. 打捞公司泰坦尼克号公司到目前为止已经从残骸中打捞出了5000多件餐具和硬币。 They say after...