China plants trees to hold back desertification
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DUOLUN COUNTY, China  - Until giant sand dunes swallowed his home, Deng Baogui was a shepherd and wheat farmer in an Inner Mongolian village where his family had lived for three generations.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 17 December: China's central government has dispatched a team of inspectors to some provinces in an attempt to put a stop to local government land grabs.
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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 needs to look back at environment before leap: official    BEIJING, Sept.
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China's government on Tuesday stepped up controls on land uses in a new effort to cool off an economic boom and threatened to punish local officials who fail to stop improper sales, a state news agency reported.
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The federal government and a nonprofit group are buying the land from local farmers to ensure its biodiversity is preserved. BY LISA J. ADAMS /Associated Press.
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To spur rural economies, China is supporting entrepreneurial ventures with Tibetan herders.
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Weeds sometimes hide fertile fields of growth.
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China has built a large earth dam to  protect a dinosaur fossil site from being washed away by  floods, state media said on Tuesday.
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GUANGZHOU, China - In southern China, it doesnât matter if an animal is an endangered species. As long as it walks, wriggles or jumps, itâs good enough for the pot.
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By MICHAEL CASEY  BANGKOK, Thailand - Desertification represents one of the "greatest environmental challenge of our times" and could set off mass migrations of people fleeing degraded homelands, a United Nations report warned Thursday.
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SHANGHAI, China - Villagers in southwestern China are scratching their heads over the county government's decision to paint an entire barren mountainside green.
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China went on the global warming offensive on Monday, unveiling a climate change action plan while stressing it will not sacrifice economic ambitions to international demands to cut greenhouse gas pollution.
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China's first plan to confront climate change cites growth as its top priority.
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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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Landscape corridors encourage biological diversity, at least with plants, a new study shows.
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TISZAKESZI, Hungary - This summer the cardinals at the Vatican accepted an unusual donation from a Hungarian start-up called KlimaFa: The company said it would plant trees to restore an ancient forest on a denuded island by the Tisza River to offset the Vatican's carbon emissions.