September 19, 2008 – 4:13 am
On this week’s episode: The FDA needs to have their heads examined. We respond to the numerous Chinese comments. Explore the world through Google Earth’s Environment section.
August 30, 2008 – 5:03 am
On this week’s episode: KFC Canada tries to do chickens right with their new animal welfare plan. China’s air control results. Check out new Alternative Autos: Chevy Volt, Shelby Supercars, Prius, and more.
On this week’s episode: South Koreans protest US Beef, China #1 CO2 maker, green your next move, and all new alt autos.
The Tibetan Plateau’s vast reserves of glacial freshwater, which supply Asia’s most populous regions, are both at risk and are emerging as a issue in the increasingly tense political and cultural strife between China and Tibet, scientists and experts say, according to a new report by Circle of Blue published Thursday.
“At least 500 million [...]
October 2, 2007 – 6:47 pm
Climate Crisis Coalition
Beneath Booming Cities, China’s Future Is Drying Up. By Jim Yardley, The New York Times, September 28, 2007. “For three decades, water has been indispensable in sustaining the rollicking economic expansion that has made China a world power. Now, China’s galloping, often wasteful style of economic growth is pushing the country toward [...]
October 1, 2007 – 4:17 am
scidev.net
Jia Hepeng
28 September 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
[BEIJING] China will share its information, technology and expertise to forecast natural disasters and manage disaster response in other developing nations, a Chinese minister revealed.
Li Xueju, minister of civil affairs, made the remark this week (24 September) at a developing nations’ ministerial meeting on disaster response management, according to Xinhua news [...]
September 7, 2007 – 4:38 am
A wind farm
Hepeng Jia
5 September 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
[BEIJING] China has released an ambitious plan to develop renewable energy to cut its surging carbon dioxide emissions.
The ‘Middle and Long-term Development Plan of Renewable Energies’ promises to derive ten per cent of China’s [...]
September 2, 2007 – 4:53 pm
Climate Crisis Coalition
China Says One-Child Policy Helps Protect Climate
By Alister Doyle, Reuters, August 30, 2007
“China says its one-child policy has helped the fight against global warming by avoiding 300 million births, the equivalent of the population of the United States. But delegates at U.N. climate change talks in Vienna said on Thursday birth control is [...]
A study released yesterday by the International Energy Agency estimates that China has now surpassed the US in polluting carbon emissions (see China may lead in greenhouse gases from today’s Los Angeles Times). Although some may take some solace in the US no longer being the lead global polluter, the drop in ranking has more [...]
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