03:03 September 7, 2024
A workshop in Taipei, Taiwan, is giving new life to bottle caps, food packaging, old toys, and other kinds of plastic waste. The zero-waste workshop …
04:11 September 6, 2024
One of the most popular foods in South Korea is kimchi. It is a kind of fermented cabbage or other vegetables. Now farmers, manufacturers and scienti…
05:50 September 5, 2024
Increasing amounts of ice have been melting on the continent of Antarctica over the past ten years. Now, scientists are wondering if the increase in …
07:12 September 5, 2024
Japan is a nation so hardworking that the Japanese language has a term for working oneself to death. Now, the government is trying to deal with a lab…
06:52 September 4, 2024
Many people are now holding onto their smartphones longer than in the past. This is true for several reasons. The cost of phones has been rising for …
07:07 September 4, 2024
On a hot summer day, workers recently worked to remove asbestos and hazardous waste at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. It is a former nuc…
04:16 September 4, 2024
When Milla Nemoudji divorced her husband following years of physical abuse, she found herself without a way to earn a living. The 28-year-old lived i…
03:38 September 3, 2024
Schoolchildren in the southern Ukrainian city Zaporizhzhia celebrated the traditional first day of school on Sunday. The ceremonies began just hours …
07:24 September 3, 2024
Flerentin Jean-Baptiste missed school so often that he had to repeat his first year at Medford High School near Boston. Jean-Baptiste said, at school…
06:11 September 3, 2024
Polio was driven out of much of the world more than 30 years ago after a series of successful vaccination campaigns. But the viral disease is still s…
05:48 September 2, 2024
American health officials have identified a virus spread by insects in more than 20 people who visited Cuba. The virus is officially called Oropouche…
08:07 September 2, 2024
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. Becky Litvintchouk did not think she would be able to finish the many tasks needed …
06:57 September 2, 2024
A Zimbabwean who formerly hunted animals illegally is now in a program that turns such poachers into protectors of wildlife. Forty-seven-year-old Tem…
06:07 September 1, 2024
Labor Day is a national holiday to celebrate workers in the United States. The holiday, on the first Monday of September, is on September 2 this year…
11:06 September 1, 2024
Experts and people in the space industry say NASA's decision to send Boeing's Starliner capsule home without astronauts was not unexpected. They also…
04:42 September 1, 2024
Angry drivers honk as cattle slowly march across and feed on the grass in the middle of the streets. It is a common sight for drivers in Nigeria's ca…
05:17 August 30, 2024
Many travelers face a common problem: jet lag. It is the feeling of tiredness people get when traveling a long distance, resulting in a difference in…
03:45 August 29, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says that rising ocean temperatures present urgent risks for people living in the Pacific Islands. …
07:20 August 29, 2024
It is after midnight when the windshield fogs up on Thomas Aycock’s pickup truck. He smiles as he slowly drives through the sawgrass and down dirt ro…
04:27 August 28, 2024
Humans hunted and killed almost all northern bald ibis birds by the 17th century. But breeding and rewilding efforts over the last 20 years helped gr…
04:59 August 28, 2024
About 200 freshwater dolphins were found dead in Lake Tefé of the Amazon River in Brazil during a period of severe dry weather last year. That is why…
06:16 August 28, 2024
The social media service X has changed its artificial intelligence (AI) tool after several U.S. states warned that it was spreading election misinfor…
08:15 August 27, 2024
As students return to college across the United States, administrators are preparing for new activism against the war in Gaza. Some have adopted new …
04:21 August 27, 2024
Cambodia has celebrated the return of numerous cultural art pieces stolen during the country’s civil war period. Prime Minister Hun Manet recently le…
04:17 August 27, 2024
Miners in Botswana recently unearthed what officials say is the second largest diamond in mining history. The country’s president Mokgweetsi Masisi p…
06:02 August 26, 2024
The founder and chief executive of the Telegram messaging service, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France over the weekend. The reports said police deta…
06:20 August 26, 2024
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. Years ago, the traditional advice was to do some stretching before exercising. Over…
02:23 August 26, 2024
Hundreds of California sea lions have taken over San Carlos Beach in Monterey, California, causing officials to close the area to people. Drawn to th…
06:55 August 26, 2024
Mary Meng, a busy worker at a Chinese technology company in Shanghai, says she cannot imagine having a second child. "The work pressure is such that …
06:45 August 25, 2024
The American space agency NASA has launched an instrument to measure the world’s carbon and methane levels in an effort to help fight climate change.…
05:47 August 25, 2024
For tens of thousands of men in Uganda's capital, driving a motorcycle taxi is a way to make a living. For others, the vehicles known as boda-bodas a…
08:56 August 25, 2024
In the American state of Kansas, a group of religious women have been calling on large companies to change the way they do business. The women are Ca…
04:22 August 23, 2024
In the 1970s, a lack of community investment resulted in a large number of people leaving Harlem, a well-known New York City neighborhood in northern…
04:20 August 22, 2024
An international group of astronomers has joined efforts seeking to establish a separate time zone for the moon. The French-based International Astro…
03:57 August 22, 2024
A plan to build a huge solar farm in Australia is a step closer after the Australian government gave environmental approvals for the $19 billion proj…
06:52 August 21, 2024
Operators of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot tools have made it clear that users’ requests can be saved and used to further develop the AI syste…
04:16 August 21, 2024
An investigation into the death of American actor Matthew Perry has led to criminal charges against five people. Perry, a star of the popular televis…
05:37 August 21, 2024
Mongolia, with its beautiful land and open spaces, is hoping to get more foreign visitors. Like most countries, Mongolia's tourism industry was hurt …
04:56 August 20, 2024
Schools in Haiti are operating without enough chairs, blackboards, and even bathrooms. Violent criminal groups limit basic government services and de…
03:51 August 20, 2024
China’s government has proposed a new law that would make it easier to register marriages, but more difficult to get a divorce. China’s Ministry of C…
06:59 August 20, 2024
In Zimbabwe, increased wildlife activity near people has put children in rural areas at greater risk of animal attacks while walking to school. Offic…
06:04 August 19, 2024
An American newspaper reporter has resigned from his job after it was discovered that he used an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to create false qu…
09:06 August 19, 2024
The World Health Organization is calling for donations to fight the latest outbreak of the viral disease mpox in Africa. The U.N. health agency decla…
06:08 August 19, 2024
The U.S. government plans to reduce the amount of Colorado River water several states are permitted to use next year. The river supplies water to sev…
06:18 August 18, 2024
A new study provides evidence that Mars contains a large ocean deep beneath its surface. The finding is based on data collected by the InSight Lander…
04:53 August 18, 2024
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. After 13 years of marriage, Bethany Meola admits that she and her husband can get c…
04:26 August 18, 2024
The United States Navy has recently deployed new long-range air-to-air missiles in the Indo-Pacific area. The move could take away China's lead in th…
05:14 August 16, 2024
Americans are showing more interest in owning unusually small cows, goats, donkeys and other small farm animals. These animals are cute. They require…
04:28 August 15, 2024
Researchers are one step closer to understanding how Britain’s ancient circular structure, Stonehenge, was created. The circle of huge rocks stands i…
04:58 August 15, 2024
The idea of turning Mars into a livable world for humans is a common element of science fiction. But could such an action be done in real life? Scien…