But the crop of foreign students in agriculture and natural resources was twenty percent bigger than the year before.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

Land development and agriculture are just two uses of natural resources that change and destroy environments that birds need.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

Japan's desire to use East Asia to gain natural resources and sell manufactured products was in direct conflict with American plans for Asia.

VOA: special.2011.05.26

Arkansas is rich in natural resources and has become a favorite place for older people to retire.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

They teach the need for farming to improve the environment and make good use of natural resources.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

He said his plan would balance the need for energy with the need to protect natural resources.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University offers sixty programs of study.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

Professor Meier also says the possibility of ships being able to move through newly unfrozen parts of the Arctic could lead to losses of natural resources.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

They demanded reforms in politics, industry and the use of natural resources.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Michael Jasny is a policy expert for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

VOA: special.2011.06.29

And that if we want a positive earth for future generations, we all need to make commitments to be change agents so that we don't destruct our natural resources."

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Then two natural resources coal and trees became important.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

These people felt America's natural resources were being mis-used.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

And that our natural resources are not inexhaustible.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time,through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our great natural resources.

VOA: special.2011.05.19

"This is where we decided to draw the battle lines." John Rogner,the assistant director of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Russia,according to Mr.Medvedev, must move from an economy based on natural resources to innovation and high tech, which will require democratization.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Ostrom's research has focuses on the interaction of people and natural resources and how common property can be successfully managed by those groups using it.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

Nikolai Petrov,a political analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center, says that unlike Abkhazia, which is rich in natural resources, South Ossetia is not capable of existing independently.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

Gary Lutterbie is a fish biologist with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

The Russian national budget relies heavily on taxes from the sale of oil and other natural resources, and oil prices have dropped sharply over the past year.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

But the Illinois Department of Natural Resources is confident their containment measures are working, as they have yet to find more Asian carp above the electric barrier.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Allen Hershkowitz with the Natural Resources Defense Council, a private environmental group, says air quality around landfill sites must be carefully checked when oil-contaminated waste is added to normal household trash.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

Says Elly Harrowell the natural resources watchdog Global Witness.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

The Forum continues with discussions on improving the investment climate in African countries, adapting training for the unemployed to changing job markets and diversifying the exploitation of natural resources in order to ease cyclical downswings.

VOA: standard.2009.06.10

Bio-trade analyst at the U.N.Conference on Trade and Development Lucas Assuncao says local communities will be more inclined to preserve their flora and fauna, if they can see economic benefits from using their natural resources in a sustainable manner.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

And who should lead that effort? PEW Vice President for Policy Analysis and the report's co-author, Stephen Seidel,says the federal government should lead, as the nation's largest landowner and the guardian of its natural resources, national parks and highways, bridges and dams.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14