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Zimbabwe is hoping to one day regain its former title as the bread basket of southern Africa. 津巴布韦希望有朝一日重新获得南部非洲粮食之乡的称号。 52-year-old George Nyamakawa is one of millions of farmers authorities are training under a UN-backed program called Pfumvudza. 52岁的乔治是数百万农民中的一员，政府正通过联合国支持的"Pfumvudza"计划对他们进行培训。 Pfumvudza, which means early shoots in...

Investing in art is something beyond what many people can afford, but that may no longer be the case thanks to New York startup called Masterworks. 投资艺术是许多人负担不起的事情，但纽约初创公司Masterworks或许能改变这一现状。 Very simply investors can come to our website. They can view different works of art that we have available for investment. 很简单，投资者可以访问我们的网站，浏览我们可供投资...

The biggest movie project of all time will soon launch on a remote mountaintop in Chile with a cast of billions. The subject nothing less than the entire visible universe. 有史以来规模最大的电影项目即将在智利一座偏远山顶启动，参演阵容达数十亿之众。主题不亚于整个可见宇宙。 We knew we needed an enormous camera, bigger than anybody had ever even conceived a building before. 我们知道我们需要一台巨大的...

New York city's eight million residents are known for staying busy, but with the abundance of people comes plenty of waste and the need to recycle. 纽约市八百万居民以忙碌著称，但人口众多也带来了大量垃圾和回收需求。 Compliance is a big challenge, and in a city as diverse as New York, it's always been a challenge. 合规是个很大的挑战，在纽约这样多元化的城市里，这一直都是个难题。 New York city produce...

For many worldwide, smartphones are used for everything from financial transactions to social media. 对全球许多人来说，智能手机的用途广泛，从金融交易到社交媒体无所不包。 So when screens break or crack, it can feel like life itself comes to a halt. 当手机屏幕破裂时，我们会感觉生活都停止了一样。 Long-time US glassmaker Corning has spent more than a decade making smartphone glass stronger. 美国老牌玻...

I grew up in Dalton, Massachusetts. Once I graduated and I had my degree, you know you really just try to get settled in somewhere with working with the species that you want to work with. 我在马萨诸塞州的道尔顿长大。毕业后我拿到了学位，想找个地方安定下来，从事自己真正想研究的物种相关工作。 I really love working with water birds, birds like pelicans for instance. 我真的很喜欢和水鸟一起工作，比如鹈...

A major new exhibition in the heart of Washington celebrates the artistic achievements of native American women with more than 80 works of art. 华盛顿市中心举办了一场大型新展览，展出了80多件艺术作品，以颂扬美国原住民女性的艺术成就。 Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists is the first exhibit of its kind, Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists是该类型的首个展览， says Anya Montiel, cur...

Whether in a fire emergency or a controlled burn like this one, firefighters put themselves in harm's way. 无论是大火蔓延，还是火情像这样得到控制，消防队员总是处于危险之中。 Until recently there was no real process in place to pull them out of a fire should the flames jeopardize their health. 直到最近，还没有真正可行的流程能在火势危及他们健康时将他们从火灾中救出。 That changed with an ar...

There were oyster reefs in Belfast Lough until the early 20th century, when overfishing and pollution all but destroyed them. 贝尔法斯特湾曾经有牡蛎礁，直到 20 世纪早期，人类的过度捕捞和污染几乎完全毁灭了它们。 Over the last four years, oyster nurseries have been set up on the coasts of counties Antrim and Down. Now conservationists have placed 2,000 adult European oysters and more than 30,000 juv...

"Say cheese!" That's what the person behind the camera might shout when they want you to smile for a photo. 2025 marked the 50th anniversary of digital photography. Steve Sasson, inventor of the first digital camera in 1975, told the BBC that it looked like a 'toaster with a lens' – not like the stylish cameras we see today! By 2005, more people were buying digital cameras than film cameras, which...

Producing Cambodian silk ikat is a time-consuming, expensive and difficult process. 制作柬埔寨丝绸伊卡特是一个耗时、昂贵且困难的过程。 The results are undeniably beautiful. But the challenges in the creation are driving this traditional craft towards extinction. 结果无疑是美的。但创作过程中的挑战正将这一传统技艺推向消亡。 Keiy Khmer Association with a team of eight weavers in Takeo province is one...

In the late 1920s, Hollywood producers liked coming here to the fancy Millennium Biltmore Hotel to hold business meetings. 20世纪20年代末，好莱坞制片人们喜欢来这家豪华的千禧碧丽宫酒店举行商务会议。 The story goes that it was here in 1927 that the studio's designer first sketched the outlook of the Oscar Statuette. 据说1927年正是在这里，该工作室的设计师首次画出了奥斯卡小金人的草图。 During the prel...

ECHO was instituted in 1975, and it originally stood for "Every Citizen Has Opportunities". ECHO成立于1975年，全称是"Every Citizen Has Opportunities"。 And we provide skill-building, job placement, day support, and transportation to individuals with disabilities. 我们还为残疾人提供技能培训、就业安置、日间支持和交通服务。 Our mission is to empower each individual to achieve their optimal level of p...

This is a slime mold. Cat Chang is an urban designer. But in her spare time, she likes to examine other life-forms. 这是一种黏菌。张凯特是城市设计师。但在业余时间，她喜欢研究其他生命形式。 Ever since I was a little girl, I've been interested in the natural world. We're native Hawaiian. 从小我就对自然界充满兴趣，我们是夏威夷原住民。 Our family and my grandmother would take me around her yard. She w...

Visitors come to the U.S. Botanic Garden to enjoy the variety of plants and the peace and serenity of nature. This woman works nearby. 游客们来到美国国家植物园，欣赏种类繁多的植物，感受大自然的宁静与祥和。这位女士在附近工作。 Feels like a forest in a city, so I can be thinking about something else that worked for even for 5 minutes, which is sometimes very nice. 仿佛置身于城市中的一片森林，让我能...

Researchers with NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, catch a leatherback sea turtle off the coast of California. 美国国家海洋和大气管理局(NOAA)的研究人员在加利福尼亚海岸捕获了一只棱皮龟。 The tens of millions of years old species is in serious decline, says ecologist Scott Benson. 生态学家斯科特·本森说，这个已存在数千万年的物种正在急剧减少。 Estimates are that the population...

Research published Monday shows a strong correlation between rising sea surface temperatures and a roughly 50 percent drop worldwide in the total number of open water species in just 40 years. 周一发表的研究显示，海洋表层水温上升与全球开放水域物种总量在短短40年内骤减约50%存在显著关联。 In geological history this is a blink, so it's just a wink of an eye. 在地质史上，这只是一瞬间，不过是一眨眼的工...

How do you fancy being up a mountain at a height of around 3,000 metres with the temperature below zero, snow underfoot, variable weather, racing up and downhill? This is how some athletes will be competing in this year's winter Olympics. 爬上海拔3000米左右的高山，零下零下的气温，脚下积雪，天气多变，上坡下坡，你感觉如何？ 这就是一些运动员参加今年冬季奥运会的方式。 Skimo, short for ski mountaineeri...

Since 2012, the village of Padangtegal in Bali, Indonesia has instructed its residents to sort out their garbage before disposal. Wati does this every day. 自2012年以来，印度尼西亚巴厘岛Padangtegal村指导居民在扔垃圾前先进行分类。瓦蒂每天都这么做。 When I was little, trees were everywhere. We used to burn our garbage but no longer. Now we live in modern era. 小时候，树木随处可见。我们过去...

This is Yemoga, a winning model for this year's Future City Competition. 这是Yemoga，今年未来城市设计大赛的获胜模型。 The concept was engineered by a team of middle school students from the Midwest state of Indiana. 这一概念是由来自美国中西部印第安纳州的一群中学生提出的。 The competition's theme this year-Clean Water: Tap Into Tomorrow-has asked students to focus on creating reliable supplies of c...

New York Times best-selling author Rahaf Harfoush is hosting a discussion on a new social media platform called Clubhouse. 《纽约时报》畅销书作家拉哈夫·哈弗什在一个名为Clubhouse的新社交媒体平台上主持一场讨论。 She spends at least two to three hours a day there, hosting three weekly shows, co-hosting others and listening to others still. 她每天至少在那里待两到三个小时，每周主持三档节目，与他人共同...

Driving: do we love it because it's quick and convenient, or is it just that we don't have a choice? Either way, commuting by car is becoming more common across the world. While this could mean that people are getting more mobility and freedom, could it have a cost? 驾驶：我们喜欢它是因为它快捷方便，还是只是因为我们别无选择？ 无论哪种方式，开车通勤在世界各地都变得越来越普遍。 虽然这可能意味着人们...

Medical care in the US costs more than it does in any other developed country. 美国的医疗费用比任何其他发达国家都要高。 That means surviving cancer can empty a patient's bank account. 这意味着要想治好癌症可能会掏空患者的银行账户。 When Tori Geib got her cancer diagnosis, she thought she would be okay financially. 托里·盖布确诊癌症时，她以为自己经济上不会有问题。 I just went on what they said to do...

The clock starts ticking when a mountain sheds its snowy skin. An avalanche covers all in its path. 当雪从山坡脱落下来时，时钟便开始倒数计时。雪崩掩埋了沿途的一切。 And for those trapped underneath, survival rates drastically drop after three to five minutes. 对于那些被困在下面的人来说，三到五分钟后存活率会急剧下降。 Rescuers quickly deploy alongside highly trained dogs that prepare their whole li...

As a girl Damon Sanatha dreamed of playing rugby professionally, but didn't have the money or access to training. 达蒙·萨纳塔小时候梦想成为职业橄榄球运动员，但既没钱也没机会接受训练。 Determined that no other girl should be kept from the game, four years ago, she began coaching Sebroco, a women's team in Bingerville. 四年前，为了让所有女孩都能参加这项运动，她开始执教班热维尔的一支女子球队Sabroco。...