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Will China Become the Green Superpower?

Spiegel Online reports here: At the UN climate summit in Durban, China has signalled for the first time that it could sign up to a binding global agreement on CO2 emissions. Indeed, fighting climate change will be impossible without the future superpower on board. Taking a green approach to economic development could bring [...]

Reality check on Beijing’s pollution

Gary Locke is the new U.S. ambassador to China, and he’s finding one aspect of Beijing very challenging: air quality.

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Can China go organic?

Alice Waters, US Organic pioneer, says she has high hopes for an organic revolution in China.

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Chinese Scientists Warn of Significant Glacier Melt

Spiegel Online reports here: Glaciers are shrinking worldwide — some of them rapidly. Now Chinese researchers have sounded the alarm in their country too, where they say warmer weather and increased precipitation are reducing the size of glaciers. Water shortages and floods could result.

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Global warming plateau linked to air pollution

AP reports here at Yahoo News: China’s rapid industrial growth helped ease the pace of global warming in the last decade, according to a new study. But greenhouse gases are heating things up again.

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Pollution: China adopts heavy metal reduction plan

Pollution: AFP reports here at Yahoo News: BEIJING – China has adopted a plan to tackle heavy-metal pollution, according to state media, after more than 30 major poisoning incidents since 2009.

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China: City of future takes green living to extreme

Yahoo News reports here: China’s planned 350,000-person eco-city will recycle rainwater and have a plant-filled “Earthscape.

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China’s rich fuel illegal timber

BBC News reports here: Demand for high-value woods in China is driving rampant illegal logging in Madagascar, an international study has concluded.

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China to get tough on pollution

Reuters reports here at Yahoo News: TIANJIN, China – China will introduce stricter rules to reduce industrial pollution, a senior economic planning official said on Tuesday.

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China closes factories as green deadline looms

AFP reports here at Yahoo News: BEIJING – China, facing the risk of embarrassment if it misses a looming environmental deadline, has ordered thousands of companies to close high-polluting plants as its leadership vies to retool economic growth.

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