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High hopes, but will there be change?
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February 20, 2009 |
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Renmin University professor Zou Ji thinks Hilary Clinton's visit to Beijing is unlikely to yield breakthrough over global warming. |
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Lowest marks over environment
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January 16, 2009 |
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Mainlanders gave the government the lowest marks yet for environmental protection last year, despite unprecedented public spending on such efforts in the lead-up to the Beijing Oly... |
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A tax on breathing?
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January 9, 2009 |
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A Beijing scientist is being criticized for supposedly suggesting a levy on exhaling carbon dioxide. Li Taige explores whether the Chinese public is huffing and puffing over nothing. |
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New hope for climate cooperation
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January 5, 2009 |
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Barack Obama's presidency offers a unique chance for China and the United States to cooperate on environmental issues. Zhang Haibin explains why. |
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Pollution grows in Yellow River
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November 25, 2008 |
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Newly released scientific results show one-third of the famed Yellow River, which supplies water to millions of people in northern China, is heavily polluted by industrial waste an... |
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China's journey to the dark ages
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November 14, 2008 |
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In the skies over China and South Asia, the sun itself is disappearing. The biggest cities are becoming darker as they fall beneath a vast brown cloud of soot, and even North Ameri... |
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Beijing will enforce carbon trading policy
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November 14, 2008 |
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The central government will enforce a compulsory carbon trading policy to realise the ambitious goal of turning China into a "low carbon civilization", the State Forestry Administr... |
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China says not enough expertise to cut greenhouse gases
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November 10, 2008 |
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The Chinese government rejected suggestions that it could use $1.9tn of foreign exchange reserves to pay for cleaner forms of energy to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions rather t... |
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China wants rich countries to transfer technology
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November 7, 2008 |
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China will try to persuade rich countries at a U.N.-sponsored climate change conference that opened Friday to transfer more technology to developing countries to help them battle g... |
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Following the trail of toxic e-waste
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November 6, 2008 |
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When 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley and his crew went to China to record the black market dismantling of electronic waste, or "e-waste," the experience was almost as hazardo... |
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China passes US in greenhouse gas emissions
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October 30, 2008 |
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China's greenhouse gas emissions have caught up with those of the United States and will not fall soon, a top official said Wednesday, while warning of a huge economic blow from gl... |
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Beijing sets price for co-operation on climate change
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October 28, 2008 |
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Beijing wants rich countries to commit 1 per cent of their economic worth to help poor nations fight global warming, and will press for a new international mechanism to spread "gre... |
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MIT Study: Dirty coal to blame for China pollution
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October 12, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found that the problem with China's coal power generation is not that its power plants lack cleaner technology, but th... |
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200 villagers poisoned
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October 10, 2008 |
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The number of people who fell ill after drinking contaminated water in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has risen to 200, as medical tests found more people with arse... |
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Streets without cars advocated
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September 15, 2008 |
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The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development's initiation of a national car-free day on Sept. 22 is of significance to both the country's urban development and environmental... |
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460,000 evacuate as typhoon Sinlaku approaches
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September 15, 2008 |
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Typhoon Sinlaku weakened into a tropical storm on Monday morning. About 460,000 people in east China's Zhejiang and Fujian Provinces have been evacuated as Sinlaku approaches. |
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Beijing saw 14
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September 2, 2008 |
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The moves of controlling air pollution taken by Beijing government during last few months took effect. According to environmental protection bureau, the city experienced 14 days of... |
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Shanghai has worst rains in 100 years
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August 25, 2008 |
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The biggest thunderstorms in a century hit Shanghai on Monday morning, causing floods in residences and streets in downtown Shanghai. |
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Strong earthquake hits southern Tibet
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August 26, 2008 |
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A strong, magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook Zhongba County, Xigaze prefecture in the southern area of Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region at 9:22 p.m. on Monday, but no casualti... |
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China's Guangdong on top alert of sea waves as Typhoon ...
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August 22, 2008 |
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South China's Guangdong Province issued a red warning alert on sea waves on Thursday as Typhoon Nuri, the 12th tropical storm this year, approached. |
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