Unit 2. World News, Earth and Environment.
Part 1. Warming up.
A. Keywords.
damage to crops, conference, oil spill, wildfires, melting.
Vocabulary.
blaze.
You're going to hear some sentences about environment, complete the statements.
1. New research on the likely impacts of climate change suggested that damage to crops on low-lying coastal regions could be worse than previously thought.
2. More than 2,000 delegates from around the world have gathered in Northern Brazil for the third United Nations conference on desertification.
3. Crews are working to clean up a huge oil spill off the coast of Mexico, about 50 miles south of San Diego.
4. Wildfires in the Florida everglades have been contained after nearly a week of blazes that consumed 65,000 hectares in the southern part of the state.
5. A US space agency study found that the Greenland is melting around the edges.
The lost to the world's second largest ice sheet, more than 50 cubic kilometers per year is enough to raise global sea level by 0.13 millimeters.
