China facing environment 'crisis'
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A senior Chinese official tells the BBC the country's environmental problems have reached crisis levels.
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China will release its first national plan to tackle climate change next week, seeking to rebut international criticism that it is not doing enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, officials said on Thursday.
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By Steve Bloomfield  Climate change has become a major security issue that could lead to "a world going up in flames", the United Nations' top environment official has warned.
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China says it faces serious power shortages as severe winter weather causes unusually high demand.
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China's explosive economic growth is outpacing environmental protection efforts, leaving the country awash in "out of control" acid rain, the China Daily said Tuesday.
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Enough fertile land could turn into desert in the next generation to create an âenvironmental crisis of global proportions.â
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China&#39;s giant Three Gorges Dam project could lead to an ecological &quot;catastrophe&quot;, Chinese experts warned in comments published Wednesday.
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China faces a higher risk of natural disasters including floods and drought this year, according to a top official.  Water Resources Vice-Minister E Jingping told local authorities to prepare for torrential floods, typhoons and continued drought.
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In China, where coal is king, the governmentâs push to increase the use of alternative energies faces obstacles, from bureaucracy to bottlenecks in manufacturing.
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Theories abound over how best to help China embrace emissions-reducing policies., but can the emerging superpower realistically fast-forward through the most carbon-intense phase of nation building?
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Chinese weather experts admit the country was not properly prepared for the current severe snow storms.
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Rich nations are responsible for greenhouse gases fuelling global warming, China said on Tuesday, urging them to cut emissions and deflecting questions about whether Beijing will accept limits.
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Chinese 'fess up as project goes titsup Chinese officials have admitted that the Three Gorges Dam across the Yangtze River will, in the absence of urgent preventative action, provoke an ecological and environmental "catastrophe", the Times reports.â¦
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BEIJING: China faces water shortage of 40 billion cubic meters (1,400 billion cubic feet) every year with severe water pollution posing a threat to the health of millions of people, state media reported.
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Groundwater levels are dropping around China, where leaders face tough choices as cities, industry and farming compete for an unbalanced and finite water supply.
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China said Tuesday it was working hard to increase its use of renewable energy, but needs to be given some leeway in the global effort to reduce greenhouse gases.
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Britain's seas are in crisis, with key species in serious decline, according to a report by the WWF.