The report says international law has failed to protect coral reefs and the tropical fish that live among them from collectors.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

Rockman imagines a terrible future in which plants and animals must be sent into space to protect them from Earth's pollution.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

The Favorite Poem Project collected video of Americans from all backgrounds,ages and places reading their favorite poems and talking about them.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

On and on they marched. Many of them -- weak from hunger and tired beyond belief could go no farther.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

He accepted gifts from them. This weakness for money and power became clear when he announced his choices for his cabinet.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

He said girls in one Dakar school told him about a lack of bathrooms and textbooks for them, and bullying from boys.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

He also took liquid from the nose and throat of a pellagra patient and put them into his own nose and throat.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

Untreated patients can spread the bacteria from their nose and mouth through the air to people who are near them a lot.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

And while they eat the grass, they may need guard animals to protect them from animals that would like to eat them.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

Americans know about them mainly from a history of use as pack animals in Arizona and other areas of the desert Southwest.

VOA: special.2010.02.16

The volunteers placed the plants about five centimeters into the soil to prevent rising and falling water levels from pulling them out.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

And now that they're back on their feet,we expect extraordinary commitment from them to help rebuild the economy."

VOA: special.2009.12.18

"I mean,I travel all over the world and have dozens of people that I meet every month and I get business cards from them.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

Once,to answer an attack on the town of Lawrence, Brown and his men pulled five men and boys from their homes and murdered them.

VOA: special.2009.06.18