Tag: China
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China Leads World in New Wind Power Installations for 2011
India may have led the world in renewable energy growth last year, but when it comes to new wind power China far and away leads the world.
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China's Largest Freshwater Lake Dries Up: Is the Massive Three Gorges Dam to Blame?
Environmental researchers say the dramatic drying up of Poyang lake -- from 3,500 square kilometers to just 200 -- is due in part to the colossal, controversial reservoir.
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Online Activism Forces Break in Official Silence About Deadly Air Pollution in China
Citizen persistence at measuring and publicizing pollution levels results in a major turnaround by Beijing.
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Chinese Climate Change Report Says Environmental Future "Grim"
In short: "China faces grim ecological and environmental conditions under the impact of continued global warming."
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China Now Gets Over 11% of its Power from Renewable Sources, Premier Says
Yet the booming nation still expects fossil fuels to "continue to dominate for a long time to come."
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Beijing Disappears Beneath the Great Smog of China
No, China's Great Wall cannot be seen from space -- but because of the smog, neither can one of its largest cities.
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Are Skyscrapers Torpedoing the World's Economies?
A new report by Barclays Capital suggests a dark side to the building boom in places like China, India, and Turkey.
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Urban Chinese Kids Meet the Natural World
New nature camps and other programs are introducing children from China's cities to the great outdoors and fostering a love for the environment.
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Giant Vegetarian Panda Eats Meat (Photos)
Motion-sensor cameras capture a pic of a panda eating meat. Run for your lives?!
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Energy News Recap: China May Soon Burn Half of All World's Coal, SuperFracking, Vestas Closing Wind Turbine Plants, More
Lots of energy news today; unfortunately, apart from the notion that peak oil is actually an opportunity for massive positive societal and environmental change which we'll get to in a few words, it's not really good news.
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200-Storey Prefab For 100,000 People Can Be Built in 2 Months
Sky City from Broad Sustainable Construction might have been considered a fantasy until we saw them build a 30-storey building in two weeks.
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Energy News Recap: 2.4 GW Seawater Pumped Hydro Project; China Ups Wind Power Target to 1000 GW
Plus... a former IEAer says oil to decline shortly after 2015 and Chevron smacked (again) by a judge. Here's what we've just been scanning in energy news.
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Climate News Recap: China Plans Carbon Tax; Global Warming Will Delay Next Ice Age, More...
Less than two weeks into 2012 and we've got some really interesting climate news we're watching, both in terms of the effects of climate change currently and far in the future (delaying the next Ice Age anyone?).
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30 Story Hotel Completely Built and Finished in Fifteen Days, on New Years Eve (Amazing Video)
This really is changing the way building is done. It is earthquake resistant and energy efficient too.
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Asia's Coal Use Grew 500% Since 1980!
This animation of world coal consumption by the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows clearly just how problematic Asia's coal dependency is.
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30,000 Citizens "Occupy" Highway in China to Protest Coal Pollution (Video)
A mass protest movement in China sets its sights on a newly proposed coal plant, as well as one that has been fouling their homeland for years.
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Solar Power Trade War With China Will Cost US Jobs
A group saying it represents 97% of the US solar industry urges SolarWorld to drop its petition asking for tariffs on Chinese solar products, on the grounds US jobs are at stake.
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William McDonough on Cradle to Cradle, a Terrestrial Space Station, and What Went Wrong in China (Podcast)
Architect and author of Cradle to Cradle talks about green products, his new buildings, and what happened in China.
