Cost of pollution, deteriorating soil and other impacts surged to 1.3tr yuan in 2008 - equivalent to 3.9 per cent of country's GDP - as officials warn of threats to ecology, food safety and flood control
… China counts £130bn cost of economic growth in … correspondent | 29th December 2010 News China Pollution Degradation Flooding Natural … to ecology, food safety and flood control China's economic growth is inflicting more …
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
… Low-cost e-waste recycling in China releasing catalogue of pollutants The … | 3rd September 2010 News Waste And Recycling China Pollution E-waste Electronics Mobile Phone chinaewastemain.jpg China along with India is …
African and Asian countries need proper electronic waste recycling systems to prevent the surge in consumer demand creating toxic e-waste mountains
… UN warns India and China over growing problem of e-waste The … to increase sharply in both India and China over the next decade African and Asian … from the UN Environment Programme says China and India are expected to see sharp …
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
… Resettlement fears over China's South-North water transfer project The Ecologist | 31st August 2010 News China Natural World Dams Energy Water threegorgesdam.jpg China's Three Gorges Dam has driven fish …
Study says neither China, India or US likely to accept legally binding cuts and that new approach is needed on reducing greenhouse gas emissions
… emissions, says the study Study says neither China, India or US likely to accept legally … from the thinktank Resources for the Future . China and India have recently added their … includes no legal obligation or timetable. China and US Despite this move, Purvis and …
Subsidies for oil, coal and gas sectors were six times higher than those for renewable energy in 2009, the latest International Energy Agency (IEA) assessment has revealed
… Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia, India and China are the biggest subsidisers of fossil … Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia, India and China accounted for more than half of all the … energies.' The IEA assessment also said China, which overtook the United States in …
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… the day after the conference closed fingered China, Sudan and Bolivia for knobbling any … to the Maldives’ delegation. Lynas damned China for not only refusing to allow any … took a swipe at NGOs that he saw as allowing China to get away with such tactics through a …
The lack of agreement at Copenhagen has left some thinking that the only way to protect national economies is to tax imports from nations who don't pay a carbon price...
… Change Tax Carbon Trade Trade War usmadeinchina.jpg The lack of agreement at Copenhagen … country that did not stop polluting in turn. China and India hated the idea, the letter's … Bank and Peterson Institute, would cause China’s manufacturing exports to decline by a …
Environmental groups say the Belo Monte dam project would devastate a large area of the Amazon rainforest and threaten the survival of indigenous peoples
… the 18,000 megawatt Three Gorges Dam in China. Public opposition Previous attempts to … amid concern about plans for two new dams in China INVESTIGATION Dams: development or … Khadija Sharife investigates. COMMENT China's green policies knock ours into a …
Study shows industrialised countries are 'outsourcing' carbon emissions to countries like China, one quarter of whose CO2 emissions are from exports
… 2010 News Carbon Emissions Climate Change China globalemissions.jpg Study shows … carbon emissions to countries like China, one quarter of whose CO2 emissions are … emissions in other countries, especially China,' said lead author Steven Davis, from …
The role of economics and the future of capitalism will be to preserve our natural resources rather than destroy them but the US may be missing the message, says economist Graciela Chichilnisky
… suit at the national level. In contrast, China is an enthusiastic supporter of the … shelters. The US has every reason to emulate China. But instead of investing in clean tech … the worst financial crisis of our times. China, India and Brazil go renewable As the …
An ambitious but at times over-simplistic look at how environmental, political and economic crises will redraw the world map
… and leaves me feeling largely unsatisfied. China At times, Paskal's rhetoric is … act now, then the rest of the world - notably China - will overtake us in the geopolitical … hierarchy. The author's reference to China's long-term plan for securing her …
Tigers - subject of this month's unprecedented conservation summit in St Petersburg - are just one species being devastated by the illegal wildlife trade, as this unique advert featuring the Indiana Jones star explains
… click here READ MORE... INVESTIGATION South China’s taste for wildlife Consuming endangered wildlife is illegal in China, but it continues on a large scale in …
The latest film from the 'Story of Stuff' team focuses on consumer electronics and the problems of waste, recycling and toxic components
… MORE... NEWS Low-cost e-waste recycling in China releasing catalogue of pollutants The … in unregulated and primitive conditions in China and causing significant toxic pollution …
Wide-ranging plans to link up Kenya, Ethiopia and Southern Sudan include the building of a port which threatens the Lamu district's indigenous coastal communities and fragile ecology, reports Tafline Laylin
… internal news in September that the China National Machinery Industry Corporation … customer easier access to southern reserves. China's hand But China’s environmental reputation in Africa is …
'Biggest not always best' says dairy industry as new super-dairy is proposed for Lincolnshire
… 'The 8,000 cow dairy businesses do exist in China and for them it might be the way to go … interactive guide from chef Darina Allen NEWS China using 'mind blowing' amount of … fertiliser Overuse of nitrogen fertilisers in China is leading to rapid soil acidification …
Sub-Saharan African countries top list of those with most vulnerable water supplies as report warns of 'looming crisis' in both Asia and Africa from pollution and depletion of natural water resources
… Himalayan sub-region of India, Bangladesh, China and Nepal. Although none of these … will be visible sooner. The Yellow River in China and the Ganges (with its tributaries) in … accounts for 90 per cent of water usage) and China (where it accounts for 65 per cent of …
The EU needs to commit to a 30 per cent reduction by 2020 compared with 1990 levels and push others to a higher level of ambition, says climate secretary
… 2010. READ MORE... NEWS Ed Miliband: China tried to hijack Copenhagen climate deal Climate secretary accuses China, Sudan, Bolivia and other leftwing Latin …
In the wake of President Sarkozy's crackdown on the Roma people, an Ecologist investigation uncovers how poverty and discrimination are forcing persecuted communities to scratch a living recycling France's growing mountain of e-waste - potentially threatening health and raising questions over the effectiveness of waste policies
… illegally exported to countries such as China, India or Ghana, or recycled by the … or at industrial-scale workshops in Guiyu, China, cables are often burned in open fires … months. NEWS Low-cost e-waste recycling in China releasing catalogue of pollutants The …
Large-scale study highlights agricultural chemicals as a possible risk factor behind rising rates of melanoma in the US
… want to help others fight similar cases NEWS China using 'mind blowing' amount of … fertiliser Overuse of nitrogen fertilisers in China is leading to rapid soil acidification …
Chinese mitten crabs are pushing indigenous species out of UK rivers and damaging river banks and habitats. It's time to look at how we could control them, and maybe find a new seafood delicacy to boot
… and eventually collapse. Native to China and South Korea, mitten crabs are … water but reproduce in seawater, and in China migrate up to 1,000 miles along certain …
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
… the damage caused by hydropower projects like China's Three Gorges Dam, which destroyed many biodiverse mountain habitats in central China as well as creating further pressure on …
The waste warrior behind the You Tube hit and now book 'The Story of Stuff', on banning children's advertising, making manufacturers responsible for waste and shifting our values
… and recycle so that they get shipped to China and poison people there? The problem … whatsoever in hazardous waste factories in China and India. I've seen every kind of …
As Burma prepares for national elections activists have launched a film to highlight the negative environmental and social impacts of the country’s largest iron mine
… conflict. INVESTIGATION A thirst for power: China in Tibet Since colonising Tibet in 1959, China has ripped out virgin forests, dug up …