In recent years, there have been growing concerns about the floating garbage and its effect on sea creatures and human health.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Parents often wonder what effect thumb sucking or sucking on a pacifier might have on their baby's teeth.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

That can have a big effect on their behavior, helping them work harder and longer in therapy sessions.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

Many people think that the Industrial Revolution was the first time people began to have a major effect on the earth's ecology.

VOA: special.2011.04.26

One person attending that evening described how the perfection of all things in the museum seemed to have an unusual effect on the guests.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

Another finding is that people who are married or work together do not have as much of an effect on happiness as friends do.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

Earlier studies have shown a positive effect of moderate drinking, especially of wine,on heart health.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

But it did have an effect on efforts to rebuild the South following the war.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

New Wal-Mart stores have had a big effect on small communities in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

News that the president's life was in danger could have an effect on the debate.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

This will have a bad effect on the mountain's ecosystems and on Tanzania's travel industry.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

It did not have much effect on the final result of America's Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

One researcher found that extreme cold can have a damaging effect on the mind.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

They have found that lack of gravity has a severe effect on bones.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

These political problems would have a great effect on the next presidential election.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

Online music stores and file-sharing have had a big effect on record sales.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

But high testosterone levels have no such effect on women.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Already,rising temperatures have had an effect on migratory birds.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

"I don't think this is going to have that big an effect on either side, whether it's the states who want to maintain their territorial integrity against the aspirations of some of their own indigenous people or, for that matter, movements that want to seek their own independence and freedom."

VOA: special.2010.07.24

"Moreover,I fear the publication of these photos may only have a chilling effect on future investigations of detainee abuse."

VOA: standard.2009.05.13