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 Environment  - 110 days ago - itn.co.uk Over a million people have been forced to flee their homes after flooding in southern China.
At least 57 people have died after massive flooding across nine provinces.
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 Environment - 171 days ago - ngm.nationalgeographic.com The proliferation of factories, farms, and cities--all products of China's spectacular economic boomis sucking the Yellow River dry. What water remains is being poisoned.
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 Environment  Ben - 173 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk All building sites in Beijing will be shut three weeks before the start of the Olympic Games, as the city tries to clear its skies of pollution.
The move follows mounting concern that athletes may suffer from Beijing's noxious atmosphere...
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 Environment Ben - 179 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk The vast forests of Eastern Siberia, known as the Taiga, are a goldmine for Chinese wood traders, who send raw logs over the border to serve their home country's booming economy. But much of the wood trade is illegal.
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 Environment - 259 days ago - presstv.ir Heavy snow has already affected 1.21 million people in east China's Anhui Province as the country braces for the coldest part of winter
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 Environment  Thunderr - 267 days ago - enn.com China announced this week that production and use of plastic bags in supermarkets and retail shops will be banned beginning 6/1.This new law could have a considerably positive environmental impact, Chinese citizens "use as many as 3 billion bags a daily"
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 Environment  Chrissy - 281 days ago - theage.com.au CHINA has abandoned controversial plans to build a huge dam that would have submerged one of the country's most renowned tourist areas and forced the relocation of 100,000 people in the south-western province of Yunnan.
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 Environment  Jonathon - 291 days ago - nature.org From New York to Costa Rica, from the first national park in China to a marine protected area in the South Pacific, these are the best of the best, the conservation success stories with the most impact for nature and people in 2007.
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 Environment  Plato - 301 days ago - guardian.co.uk China's economic growth, underpinned by a lack of political accountability, will have a devastating environmental impact.
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 Environment  Vanessa - 316 days ago - phayul.com Climate change is causing more weather-related disasters than ever in the Himalayan region of Tibet, where the temperature is rising faster than in China Proper. "The tolls are more severe and losses are bigger."
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 Environment  Cher - 321 days ago - iht.com China's choice is to keep building big dams, even as the social and environmental impacts of the projects are increasingly questioned. The Three Gorges Dam is projected as an anchor in a string of hydropower "mega-bases" planned for the middle and upper
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 Environment  Ombretta - 330 days ago - washingtonpost.com Not only do the Japanese insist on tuna for sushi and sashimi, but the US, Europe & China are buying ever-greater quantities. The commercial catch of bluefin tuna has risen more than ten times than 1950 levels, and the fleet is 70% larger in some areas.
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 Environment Ombretta - 358 days ago - nytimes.com Dramatic story of one man's crusade to save Lake Tai, central to China's "land of fish and rice." Inatead of working to save the lake, Chinses officials jailed the man trying to keep it ecologically viable.
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 Environment Ben - 360 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com NONGDAO: In eight weeks the quiet narrow road that hugs Nongdao's sugarcane fields on the way to the ancient jungles of Myanmar will be overrun with Chinese trucks loaded down with illegal timber.
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U.S. Recalls Over 1/2 Million Toys Over Lead Levels October 4
Environment - 366 days ago - enn.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half a million toys ranging from key chains to Winnie the Pooh bookmarks and Baby Einstein color blocks are being recalled because of excessive lead levels, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Thursday.
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