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President Clinton Announces Record Number of Commitments in First 24 Hours, Launches CGI Asia
More big news from the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI): Former president Bill Clinton announced that more than 100 CGI commitments have been made in the first 24 hours of this year's meeting—a record for the organization, which held its first annual
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Floods, Monsoons, Heat Waves, Drought: Climate Change In Asia Now
In Asia, it's already a killer summer, even if the season hasn't started yet. A week after China released its action plan on climate change (sans emissions caps), 76 people have died over a six-day
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Illegal Ivory Trade Increases
Trade in illegal ivory is growing, according to the monitoring group, Traffic. The group blame East Asian organised crime for the increase, who gather ivory in Africa to smuggle back to Asia. Little of the material is shipped to the West, with most being
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Asian Rice a Source of Greenhouse Gas
Rice isn't just a staple food for much of the world or even our planet's most consumed cereal grain—it's also inexorably enmeshed in many a cultural identity. A report, however, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
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Indian Environmentalist Calls US on Climate Change Blame Game
The blame game can be fun when you're playing with your sibling or your significant other. But nobody wins when big greenhouse gas emitting countries play the climate change blame game. Last week, a well-known Indian environmentalist accused the US of
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Facing Smog and Sluggish Traffic, Beijing Upgrades Its Public Bus System
The traffic in Beijing is so bad, and the city so large, it is said that even its most efficient denizens can only accomplish one task per day. Hoping to change that local wisdom, the Beijing transportation bureau managed to do a few things one day in
