Last December, the Australia-based company Invetech reported that it had delivered the world's first production model 3-D bio-printer for Organovo.

VOA: special.2010.10.19

These "hotspot" areas include Northern Australia, Central South America, Eastern Siberia and parts of the United States and Canada.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

Some places like Australia's Great Barrier Reef and Montana's Glacier National Park are threatened by the effects of climate change.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

The long-beaked echidna is an endangered animal that only lives north of Australia, on New Guinea and nearby islands.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

Other lesser known acts include a fairly new band from Australia called Violent Soho and the Nigerian-German soul singer Nneka Egbuna.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

The new study found that overfishing has been reduced in Canada's Newfoundland-Labrador area and in Iceland and southern Australia.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Every year,moist air masses known as monsoon produce large amounts of rainfall in India,East Asia, northern Australia and East Africa.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

"In high income countries such as the United States, the U.K.and Australia,death rates are around forty-five per hundred thousand per year.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

Two years ago, scientists discovered more than one hundred corals in the Great Barrier Reef and on a reef near northwestern Australia.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

Some festivals, like the one in Adelaide,Australia, are very large and have been going on for many years.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

Professor Prusinkiewicz is on sabbatical leave in Australia, but he sent us an e-mail suggesting a simple way to understand the process.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

He found fossil remains of the same kind of an early plant in areas of Africa, South America,India, Australia and even Antarctica.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

You can track a shark that swims from Australia all the way to southern Africa and back.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

Earlier this year, a professor at the University of Western Australia commented on the overuse of glyphosate.

VOA: special.2010.04.27