"It's a big deal. How big a deal you have to measure piece by piece but clearly it is the first major change in our health care system since nineteen sixty-five so that's a long time coming."

VOA: special.2010.03.27

"Kids really get engaged in science in the garden where it's a kind of fun activity where they're collecting data and seeing how different temperatures will change the amount of water that's needed by a crop, so the science concepts come easily."

VOA: special.2011.06.14

A new report by the PEW Center on Global Climate Change, an independent policy research group, echoes the president's view.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

The fires were fed by dry conditions caused by very hot temperatures and a long drought, which many blame on climate change.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

While in New York, Mr.Obama also addressed a high-level summit on climate change,called by U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

Africa,with already severe weather conditions and a poor population largely dependent on subsistence farming, is considered to be the continent most threatened by climate change.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

But the World Health Organization has a program to change that by 2015.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

Kurdish opposition groups led by the "Goran", or Change block of Nusherwan Mustapha, issued a list of complaints about improper electoral procedures and numerous irregularities during Saturday's vote.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

and they did it,". He says reforms undertaken by communist dictatorships never lead to systemic change without an active opposition creating what he calls a "civil society movement."

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Scientists warn the impact of climate change is hitting the world faster than previous predictions by Pachauri's IPCC, which amounts to a more conservative consensus of top world researchers.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

he endorsed the grim assessment by the NATO and U.S.commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, and his call for a change in the way the alliance operates in the country.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

The alarming prediction that the Himalayan glaciers are receding faster than those in any part of the world was made in a 2007 report by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

In addition to the non-proliferation summit, Rice confirmed that President Obama will address the opening session of a climate change summit to be convened by U.N.Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on September 22.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said France unilaterally increased its troop presence last September to some 3,800, and will not even consider another change until a conference on Afghan aid being convened by Britain in late January.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05