04:25 March 21, 2023
A strike by French garbage collectors has led to mountains of trash sitting on the streets of Paris. The strike entered its 16th day on Tuesday. The …
05:20 March 20, 2023
A group of United Nations scientists warned Monday that humanity is close to its last chance to prevent the worst of climate change. The Intergovernm…
05:08 March 20, 2023
Some of the world’s leading vaccine makers are developing bird flu shots to prepare for possible outbreaks of the sickness in humans. Bird flu, or av…
07:07 March 20, 2023
The company WeightWatchers recently announced it would buy a health company whose providers prescribe drugs for weight loss. However, some experts wo…
05:20 March 20, 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed Chinese leader Xi Jinping to Moscow on Monday. Russia and China have described Xi’s three-day visit as a ch…
05:07 March 19, 2023
Behind some great men, there is a big brother. Leon Monet, Claude Monet’s older brother, is central to a new public art show, or exhibition, in Paris…
03:26 March 19, 2023
Geology is the study of rocks, soil, and the physical structure of the Earth. The geology of Brazil’s volcanic Trindade Island, a home for turtles, i…
06:43 March 19, 2023
Biologists who study evolution have always been interested in animals that developed on islands. In some situations, animals on islands changed over …
05:23 March 19, 2023
American scientists are working to develop a telescope to deploy on the moon. The telescope is designed to search for ancient radio waves that could …
07:09 March 18, 2023
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. In news reports, you can hear about surprising events. You can learn about new technolog…
08:20 March 18, 2023
Three years ago, COVID-19 restrictions caused major changes to the way students experienced college. Instead of learning in classrooms, they took cla…
06:04 March 18, 2023
Coastal communities around the world are using material from coconuts to reduce beach erosion. Long pieces from the outer shell of the coconut, known…
13:21 March 17, 2023
We present the short story "A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett. Dona de Sanctis wrote this version for VOA Learning English. Your narrator is Kay Ga…
06:44 March 17, 2023
For the first time in about 30 years, Americans have a new favorite kind of dog, the American Kennel Club (AKC) says. The organization announced this…
04:58 March 17, 2023
Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher, we will answer a question about two common synonyms, or words that have similar meanings, “abnormal” and “irregula…
06:58 March 17, 2023
The United States is considering updating racial and ethnic categories recognized in the country for the first time since 1997. The government’s Offi…
07:47 March 16, 2023
In the past few weeks, we asked readers and listeners to write structured poems using either parts of speech or syllables. Many of you wrote in with …
05:23 March 16, 2023
French President Emmanuel Macron ordered a highly unpopular bill Thursday to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. Macron acted without the support…
04:26 March 16, 2023
The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has demanded that TikTok's Chinese owners sell their share of the company or face a U.S. ban, the comp…
05:48 March 16, 2023
The United States military on Thursday released a video of what it said was a Russian fighter jet releasing fuel onto an American drone. The incident…
02:43 March 15, 2023
Viktor Mikhalev is a blacksmith, someone who creates and repairs things made of metal. He lives in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk in eastern …
05:06 March 15, 2023
The U.S. Space Command recently released a proposal aimed at reducing the “junk” orbiting the Earth in space. Space junk might be a piece of metal th…
02:57 March 15, 2023
The skin of a small fish from Thailand is almost completely clear. But when light shines through it, a shimmering rainbow of colors appear. Now, scie…
06:09 March 15, 2023
Google has released a series of new artificial intelligence (AI) tools designed to be used with Gmail, Google Docs and other products. Google has mad…
05:32 March 14, 2023
A federal government report from December found that half of all U.S. students started this school year behind their grade level in at least one subj…
05:02 March 14, 2023
A Japanese company has found a way to turn unwanted rice into plastic goods. One company is working with farmers in the coastal town of Namie. Nearby…
05:16 March 14, 2023
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has expressed support for creating new territories for the country’s Indigenous communities. Lula spoke…
03:08 March 14, 2023
Pakistan’s second-largest city, Lahore, has been named the city with the most polluted air in the world in 2022. IQAir, a Swiss company that makes ai…
08:04 March 13, 2023
The recent kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico brought attention to a common practice for many people in the United States: medical tourism. Medic…
04:25 March 13, 2023
Competitors in this year’s Iditarod dogsled race in Alaska are dealing with another struggle along the trail – unusually high temperatures. Jason Mac…
04:26 March 13, 2023
President Joe Biden told Americans Monday that the nation’s financial system is safe. Biden made the comments after the collapse of two large banks w…
04:46 March 13, 2023
Everything Everywhere All at Once won the best picture Oscar at the Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night in Los Angeles, California. The unusual movi…
06:10 March 12, 2023
Anyone who has learned a foreign language knows how uncomfortable the experience can be. But learning a new language is also enjoyable, meaningful an…
06:12 March 12, 2023
More than 35 years after the world's worst nuclear accident, the dogs of Chernobyl, Ukraine, live among empty buildings in and around the closed nucl…
06:40 March 12, 2023
Several new studies confirm the success of a test by the American space agency NASA to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid. The studies suggest the e…
06:31 March 12, 2023
Food prices around the world increased when Russia invaded Ukraine last year partly because Ukraine is a big grain exporter. Ukrainian farmers left t…
06:50 March 11, 2023
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. Up and down. High and low. These short words describe more than just directions. They al…
08:49 March 11, 2023
When students think about college classes in the United States, they often think about the ones that will result in a degree. A science student might…
04:29 March 11, 2023
Researchers have found the earliest direct evidence for horseback riding. The evidence comes from 5,000-year-old human skeletons in central Europe. T…
10:25 March 10, 2023
And now an American Children’s Story from VOA Learning English. Today’s story probably had its start long before it was published in Europe long ago.…
06:16 March 10, 2023
At Sunday’s Academy Awards, or Oscars, in Los Angeles, Angela Bassett will be one of the few Black actors considered for a major award. Bassett is no…
04:30 March 10, 2023
Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher, we will answer a question about syllable dropping in American English pronunciation. Question: Hi, VOA Learning En…
04:31 March 10, 2023
A surprise rule by China requires Chinese college students overseas to learn in-person if they want their education to recognized back home. The rule…
07:27 March 9, 2023
Last week, we looked at two kinds of poems, the cinquain and the diamante or diamond poem. We explored parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives and …
03:13 March 9, 2023
Georgiana Viou is self-taught chef, or cook, from the west African country of Benin. She moved to France in hopes of becoming a translator. Instead, …
04:45 March 9, 2023
More American businesses are starting to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to come up with new ideas and to deal with customers. Mattel is known…
04:39 March 9, 2023
At least six people died early Thursday as Russia launched a wave of missiles into Ukraine. It was the first large missile attack by Russia since the…
04:49 March 8, 2023
A new study has found that a dinosaur’s size was not necessarily linked to how quickly it grew. The research results come from studying a group of di…
06:04 March 8, 2023
Egypt is in an economic crisis made more severe by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The conflict, now in its second year, has increased food and energy …
04:12 March 8, 2023
The war in Tigray is over, but the trauma remains. Tsega Fitsum is a volunteer teacher at the Mai Weyni school in the Tigray capital, Mekelle. She sa…