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 <title>Low-cost e-waste recycling in China releasing catalogue of pollutants</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:03 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The world's growing waste mountain of mobile phones, computers and other electronic goods is being illegally recycled in unregulated and primitive conditions in China and causing significant toxic pollution]]></description>
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 <title>Tibetan nomads struggle as grasslands disappear from the roof of the world</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:04 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Scientists say desertification of the mountain grasslands of the Tibetan plateau is accelerating climate change]]></description>
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 <title>Canada tar sands industry ignoring toxic river pollution</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:38 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Study contradicts Alberta government and industry claims that pollutants are from natural sources and not from the expanding production of oil from tar sands]]></description>
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 <link>http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/579690/resettlement_fears_over_chinas_southnorth_water_transfer_project.html</link>
 <title>Resettlement fears over China's South-North water transfer project</title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:14 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Biggest engineering project in Chinese history could repeat failures of Three Gorges Dam, with significant pressure on ecosystems and fisheries from the resettlement of 300,000 people]]></description>
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 <link>http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/577084/geoengineering_wont_stop_sealevel_rises_study_predicts.html</link>
 <title>Geoengineering won't stop sea-level rises, study predicts</title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:04 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Only massive and regular sulphur injections into the atmosphere would prevent sea-level rises of 30-70cm on 2000 levels by the end of the century as a result of climate change]]></description>
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 <link>http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/575962/activists_win_historic_ruling_on_peoples_law_on_the_environment.html</link>
 <title>Activists win historic ruling on 'people's law on the environment'</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:35 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Crippling costs of legal action prevents people mounting challenges over environmental damage, finds UN Committee]]></description>
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 <title>Rapid growth in Amazon dams brought home by online map</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:28 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[New website details more than 140 planned or operating hydropower projects in the Amazon basin]]></description>
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 <title>Norway accused of 'hypocrisy' over ethical investment</title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:20 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The Norwegian government has sold its investment in one Malaysian logging and palm oil company but remains a big shareholder in another accused of destroying rainforest and orang-utan habitats]]></description>
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 <link>http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/570519/nonstick_pans_can_affect_our_hormones_new_research_suggests.html</link>
 <title>Non-stick pans can affect our hormones, new research suggests</title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:51 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Norwegian study highlights the effects of PFC and PCB chemicals on human health]]></description>
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 <link>http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/570518/tar_sands_campaign_targets_holidaymakers_and_pension_funds.html</link>
 <title>Tar sands campaign targets holidaymakers and pension funds</title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:51 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Climate activists stage mass protest outside headquarters of tar sands funder RBS as campaigners urge holidaymakers to boycott Canada]]></description>
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 <title>Human response to climate change is making matters worse</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:47 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Our attempts to adapt to, and mitigate, the effects of climate change, such as using biofuels, could worsen the direct effects of climate change on our ecoystems]]></description>
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 <title>Vedanta ‘in total contempt of the law’ says Indian government</title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:22 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Damning Indian government report says British-owned mining company’s plans should be blocked, as two local tribal campaigners are abducted]]></description>
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 <title>Drilling to begin for Cornwall geothermal power plant in 2011</title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:09 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Planning approval for attempts at the first commercial geothermal power plant in Cornwall could see renewable heat and electricity being generated as early as 2013]]></description>
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 <title>Tanzania’s Serengeti Highway plan could destroy major carbon sink</title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:58 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Environmentalists are dismayed at plans by the Tanzanian government to build a major commercial highway through Serengeti National Park]]></description>
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 <link>http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/562566/cheap_solar_geoengineering_plans_may_have_unintended_consequences.html</link>
 <title>'Cheap' solar geoengineering plans may have unintended consequences</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:01 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Researchers warn that individual countries looking to go it alone with 'cheap' solutions to regional climate change could inflict negative impacts on the rest of world]]></description>
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