Today's Sunday, which means it's time for our extensive listening slot.
This week we are coming back to the topic of the environment through a Voice of America (VOA) documentary which explores the most damaging effect of the changes in the weather in 2012, drought.
"2012 has been the warmest year on record in the United States and the driest since 1988. Nearly two-thirds of the country was in drought as of October. The extreme weather has hit some of the nation’s most fertile farmland. As the world’s largest corn and soybean exporter, the impacts have been global. Prices for these crops have set new records on international markets, raising the cost of feeding livestock in particular."
You can watch the thirty-minute documentary here and, if you wish, activate the YouTube CC subtitles, which give an accurate transcription of the script in the programme. The transcript is also available on the VOA site here.
You can also download the documentary from the VOA site here.
