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Major food-producing regions like Argentina, Spain, and the Black Sea are among those most affected, alongside politically unstable nations like South Sudan. Every year, nearly 400, 000 square miles of productive land degrade globally. The UN Convention to Combat Desertification, in place for 30 years, seeks to reverse this trend, but progress remains limited.

Saudi Arabia, host of the summit and the world's largest oil exporter, has a complicated role. While it favoured international agreements to combat climate change, it has also worked to weaken commitments to reduce fossil fuel dependency and limit plastic pollution. These actions highlight the tension between environmental goals and economic interests.

The report outlined measures to build resilience, such as rethinking agricultural practices. For example, regions with long histories of water scarcity, like Los Angeles, are exploring ways to grow less water-intensive crops. However, such adaptations may prove challenging for many large urban areas worldwide.

Drylands, which cover more than 40% of Earth's land outside Antarctica, experience persistent moisture deficits. Europe has been particularly affected, with over 95% of its land becoming drier in recent decades. While some regions, like Central Africa and India, may see increased rainfall due to heavier bursts of precipitation (降水) in a warming climate, no current drylands are expected to become consistently humid in the near future.

The report warns that the ecological impacts of the drying trend may be irreversible within human timescales. Many organisms adapted to current conditions may not survive the rapid changes, emphasizing the urgency of global action to address this crisis.

Classics of art, literature and music are supposed to carry some mysterious appeal that endures across the ages. But as Rochelle Gurstein, a historian, writes in a new book, the "timeless classic" is anything but permanent. "What I believed was written in stone was actually written in water", she argues. Classics come and go.

Take other celebrated works of art for example. Until the end of the 19th century Michelangelo's "David" had only his fig leaf to protect him from the weather in Piazza della Signoria in Florence. He attracted more pigeons than visitors; visitors preferred the artist's sculpture of Moses in Rome. Before the famous "Venus de Milo" was discovered in 1820, viewers were crazy about "Venus de Medici", a delicate sculpture most people alive today have never heard of.

Much as in art, the classics of music and literature have not always been set in stone either. Today, Johann Sebastian Bach is often regarded as the master of classical music. But after his death in 1750, Bach's compositions fell out of fashion until Felix Mendelssohn, a German composer, rediscovered them in the 1820s. Herman Melville's masterpiece "Moby Dick" was largely forgotten until critics such as Raymond Weaver, a professor at Columbia University rescued him from the depth of a nobody around the centenary of his birth in 1919.

"The status of classics" depends on critics and shows the power of passionate writers to change the way people look at art. Tastes evolve, and they should. But culture lives on only as long as people continue to argue over what counts as a classic today. The true enemy of the classic is not relativism or awakening. It is silence.

A newspaper comments: Putting an end to the requirement that parents sign the homework of their children eases the burden on many parents, as otherwise they would have to do primary school homework after a hard day's work. But there are worries that if parents stop signing their children's homework, the children will not get good grades.

However, the most efficient way for children to study is to cultivate their willingness to learn and do their own studies. When doing homework, students practice and hopefully apply what they have learned. True teachers are supposed to check students' homework and identify their mistakes. But some parents correct their children's mistakes by themselves when signing the homework.

It is students' duty to do their homework, be responsible for their studies and correct their mistakes. Parents supervising their homework, checking their answers and dealing with the harder problems will only make children less aware of their mistakes and encourage them to wait for their parents' help when they face any problems.

Children have to manage their own learning and develop the ability to study by themselves, as competence will not be achieved if a student simply repeats rigid tasks in which he is assisted at school by teachers and at home by parents.

An experiment conducted by American psychologist Walter Mischel in the 1960s proved that children with better self-discipline performed better in their studies and relationships.

There is little doubt that parents' supervision can make children's homework better. But it does not give children the chance to solve problems independently.

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I ran after the train, shouting, "Hey mister, can't you see me?" It was hopeless, as no conductor is going to slow down for a 60-year-old man who got to the station several minutes late. They absolutely didn't know how important that day, that train ride was to me! I was on my way to an interview for what could have been the opportunity of a lifetime.

I threw both my hat and my art case down in depression, and sat down on the nearest chair, wiping (擦掉) the sweat from my face and breathing heavily. I would have to wait a whole day for the next train, and by then my appointment with the gallery owner would have given up on me. Perhaps it was for the best. It was, after all, the first time in 40 years anyone had shown such an interest in my art. Maybe if the gallery owner had seen all my paintings, he would have changed his mind about offering me space on his walls.

Disappointment filled my soul. Should I dial the gallery and get an interview on a different day? But Pierre Gianni was the owner of the most well-known gallery in New York City. Why would he give a rare second chance to an elderly nobody when he had the newest, coolest young artists to choose from?

Come to think of it, perhaps these insecurities were the very reason I had never been offered a show before. I was too afraid to try. I found countless excuses not to offer my work up to be seen and perhaps criticized. I told myself it would hurt too much if I failed, but the truth was that I had never tried.

Finally, I gathered all my courage to dial the gallery, only to find my antique cell phone had broken down. It was at the very moment that I was in total despair and decided to go home.

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Suddenly I felt a touch on my shoulder.

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The next morning I got to the gallery on time.

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Miniseries (迷你剧),(feature) episodes (集) between tens of seconds to over 10 minutes, has changed viewing habits in China. Accessible to anyone with a smart device, these short series, diverse plot twists and rapid story development are contained, have quickly gained a large following.

Last year, the market size of China's online short series(be) 37.39 billion yuan, with the market expected to exceed 100 billion yuan by 2027. The online miniseries Unparalleled produced by Fung Culture made new record by earning revenue of over 100 million yuan in the eight days following its release.

Most short online dramas were adapted from online novels with limited themes, such as unbeatable heroes or female-perspective romances, but since this year, many producers(begin) to try more diverse themes, such as suspense and period dramas.

At the end of 2023, Reel Short, a short-series application in China, was among the most downloaded entertainment(application) on Apple's App Store in America. Short dramas are now acknowledged as the "most lucrative track" due to their(remark) cost-effectiveness.

Along with the(constant) rising number of series, miniseries also face an increasing need for strong regulation. While regulatory authorities are actively monitoring and supervising, it is essential for companies(carry) out effective content regulation internally. This is crucial achieving a more sustainable and responsible development at both home and overseas.

Her story started with, "Mommy, I made a teacher2 today." I didn't know why my first thought was a3 one. I definitely shouldn't have4 her. The rest of her story went like this...

"There's a boy in my class with hyperactivity (多动症). Everyone5 him because he does strange things. Today he fell to the6. I looked around and all these kids were laughing, so I walked up to him and lay down with him. The class stopped laughing. A7 was walking by the open door and saw my8. She walked into the room towards me, bursting into9. She held me up and gave me the tightest10 ever and kept saying what a sweet girl I was."

My voice was11 by a lump (梗) in my throat. Tears flooded my eyes. How could I find the right words to12 just how proud I was? She looked at me, saw the tears flowing and knew I didn't need13.

There is not a thing my child could do that would make me much14! Nothing is better than standing up for what is15 and showing compassion towards others.

Industrial farming not only increased the crop-growing areas, but changed the techniques used by farmers. Instead of switching the crops that were grown on a field each year, entire plantations would be devoted to a single crop. This approach and intensive modes of farming led to destruction of local biodiversity and land worsening — within years, fields would cease to produce crops.

Plantations of the 18^th and 19^th centuries were a "get rich quick plan" rather than a long-term investment. Once a field became unusable, plantation owners would simply move on to new land. Up to the end of the 19th century, wide areas of our planet were still not claimed by global modernity. But today, while we are quickly running out of vegetative (覆盖植被的) land, this mindset continues. "Farmers still hold the view that land is cheap and limitless," said Crystal Davis from the World Resources Institute. "Most of them just cut down more trees, when new land is needed."

"To meet our ecological goals, we need to stop turning natural ecosystems to farmland," Davis said. "We can achieve this in part by bringing back the land's ecological wholeness and productivity."

Davis points to the 20×20 initiative (倡议), which has seen 18 South American and Caribbean countries commit to recovering 50m hectares of land by 2030. It includes a number of projects aimed at introducing agroforestry (混农林业) practices to cocoa and coffee farms in Colombia and Nicaragua. There farmers are encouraged to grow crops while introducing more trees to their land.

The solar energy in community solar doesn't actually flow into your home, but flows into your area's power grid (电网), providing electricity to homes and businesses in your region, and you get the benefits of government solar rewards in the form of lower electricity bills.

Among those signing up for the program is Dickerson, 73, of Oak Park, Illinois. "Try it; you'll like it," he said. "You'll save money, and you'll feel good about saving the planet — at least a little bit." Proudly showing charts of their electricity costs in a recent interview, Dickerson and his fellow members of the community green committee, said they're all paying less with community solar for their individual homes as well as the community's common space.

Community solar was pioneered in the mid-2000s as a way to bring clean energy to the many American households without access to solar panels for various reasons. "Community solar is about to boost everywhere in terms of access," said Nicole Steele, a senior advisor in the U. S. Department of Energy. "It's just another way to be part of the clean energy transformation and see the actual benefits."

Dickerson and his neighbour Johnson have been protecting the planet since childhood, such as leaving no litter in the forest and sorting recyclables. Therefore, they found it easy to accept community solar. Now, the building's green newsletter, edited by Johnson, is trumpeting community solar savings. "As a parent and grandparent, it's kind of like a heritage," Johnson said of this work. "How could I do something that's bad for the world in which my grandchildren are going to live?"

Words in this language consisted of two classes: free and bound. The free words were all nouns that referred to the environment and its inhabitants, such as ra for "pig". They could occur alone. The bound words were nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs that always existed with markers indicating a relation to other objects, events or states. The markers came from seven zones of the body and were attached to a root word to describe concepts such as "inside", "outside", "upper" and "lower". For example, the morpheme(词素) er-, which qualified most anything having to do with an outer body part, could be stuck to -cho to yield ercho, meaning "head".

Just as a head, a bound word, could not conceptually exist on its own, the mode and effect of an action could not be divided from the verb describing the action. Great Andamanese had no words for agriculture but a great many for hunting and fishing, mainly with a bow and arrow. Thus, the root word shile, meaning "to aim", had several versions: utshile, to aim from above; arashile, to aim from a distance; and eshile, aiming to make a hole with a sharp object.

The studies established that the language seems to be truly old in origin. In a multistage process of development, words describing diverse body parts had changed into morphemes referring to different zones and combined with content words to yield meaning. The structure alone provides an insight into an ancient worldview in which the macrocosm(宏观世界) reflects the microcosm, and everything that is or that happens inseparably connects to everything else.