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Drought Hits Millions In Southwestern China As Polluted Lake Forces Factory Shutdown
Beijing (AFP) Jun 05, 2007A severe drought has left four million people short of drinking water in southwest China, state media reported Tuesday, as the vast country battles a crippling water shortage. Some 4.46 million head of livestock were also affected by the drought in Sichuan, where parts of the province have not seen any rain for up to 40 days, Xinhua news agency reported, citing the province's meteorological bure ... more China Says Pollution Woes To Ease This Year 
Beijing (AFP) Jun 05, 2007The amount of pollution being pumped into China's environment will finally begin to fall this year, the nation's environment ministry said Tuesday, after a similar goal was missed in 2006. "We should see a turning point... this year," Zhang Lijun, the vice minister of the State Environment Protection Administration, told reporters in a briefing to mark World Environment Day. "This will be ... more US Encourages Responsible Behavior In Space-Faring Nations 
Washington DC (USINFO) Jun 05, 2007U.S. officials say the National Space Policy, released in October 2006, is the natural evolution of a half-century of space-related policies, and that China's anti-satellite test in January, though cause for concern, is not part of a new "arms race" in orbit. Also, some technical experts and members of Congress have expressed concern that President Bush's policy conveys a unilateralist attack ... more India Resists Calls To Cut Emissions As Brazil Says No To US Plans 
New Delhi (AFP) Jun 04, 2007India said Monday that it would not agree to any commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions under growing international pressure, and instead pressed for greater collaboration on clean technologies. New Delhi has already said it would reject such calls at this week's Group of Eight summit, where climate change will be a key topic, because stricter limits would slow ... more China Cool On Two-Degree Warming Limit 
Beijing (AFP) Jun 04, 2007China said Monday it would not back efforts to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius, which UN experts have warned is the threshold-level to stop the worst impacts of climate change. "Whether or not we can set a limit on a two-degree (3.6 Fahrenheit) rise in temperature I'm afraid still lacks a lot of scientific evidence and dependable and feasible research," Ch ... more |
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Xichang, China (SPX) Jun 01, 2007China on early Friday morning launched "SinoSat-3", a communications satellite for radio and television broadcasting, aboard a Long March-3A carrier rocket, marking the 100th flight of its Long March series. The satellite, launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwest Sichuan province at 0:08 a.m. (Beijing Time), separated from the rocket about 24 minutes after lift-off, bef ... more Eating Ammonia 
Atlanta GA (SPX) May 31, 2007A new study led by University of Georgia researchers finds that crenarchaeota, one of the most common groups of archaea and a group that includes members that live in hot springs, use ammonia as their energy source. Chuanlun Zhang, lead author of the study and associate research scientist at UGA's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, said such a metabolic mode has not been found in any of the ... more Asia And Europe Fail To Agree On Climate Change Targets 
Hamburg (AFP) Germany, May 29, 2007China said on Tuesday it will not be tied to targets on cutting carbon emissions as Europe and Asia failed to agree at a 40-nation meeting on how to fight global warming. Beijing wants the developed world to take the lead in cutting emissions, allowing Asia to seek economic growth and fight poverty, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said at a press conference to conclude the Europe-Asia ... more China Rejects Binding Targets On Greenhouse Emissions 
Hamburg (AFP) May 29, 2007China on Tuesday promised to "do its best" on fighting climate change but rejected calls that Asia should sign up to binding targets on cutting carbon emissions. Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said China and other Asian nations cannot bear the same responsibility for restricting greenhouse gas emissions as the developed world. "The developed world should do more but China will do its best," ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) May 24, 2007Melting Tibetan glaciers could cause the worst flooding on the Yangtze since 1998, when more than 3,000 people were killed as China's longest river overflowed, state media said Thursday. "Meteorological and hydrological features in the Yangtze River valley this year are similar to those in 1998," said Cai Qihua, deputy chief of the Yangtze River Flood Control Headquarters, according to the China ... more Chinese Space Agency Joins The International Charter Space And Major Disasters 
Paris (ESA) May 28, 2007The China National Space Administration has become the newest member of the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters', a joint initiative that works to provide emergency response satellite data free of charge to those affected by disasters anywhere in the world. China National Space Administration (CNSA) Administrator Prof. Dr Sun Laiyan signed the Charter on 24 May at ESA headquar ... more Japan Proposes Halving Emissions By 2050 
Tokyo (AFP) May 24, 2007Japan called Thursday for the world to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, proposing a successor to the Kyoto Protocol it hopes will win over top offenders the United States and China. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, unveiling the proposal ahead of the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Germany, pledged to bring all nations onboard in the fight against global warming by making the post-Kyoto framework ... more China's War Chest 
Washington (UPI) May 23, 2007With more than $1,200 billion in U.S. dollars, T-bills and securities in its piggy bank, China has been losing money as the value of the dollar has fallen against the euro. This helps explain that startling announcement last week that China is planning to launch a state investment fund that would seek better returns on its money. It plans to start by investing in stocks and private capital ... more
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