China mops up massive oil spill
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Chinese authorities are battling to clean up after one of the worst oil spills in the region's waters.
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Chinaâs pollution problem, like the speed and scale of its rise as an economic power, has shattered all precedents.
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The Philippines began a massive cleanup Friday from a pair of devastating storms that have left hundreds dead and thousands homeless.
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SHANGHAI, China -- China began mopping up Thursday after sustaining heavy damage from Typhoon Aere, as the death toll from the ferocious storm continued to rise in Taiwan and the Philippines.
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Oil from a stricken container ship leaked Friday onto a southern English beach and blackened seabirds in the latest mishap for a costly six-month-long salvage operation, officials said.
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Record rainfall this week triggered floods, landslides and mud flows that killed 152 people in China and forced the evacuation of hundreds of thousands, state media reported Sunday.
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Residents in south-western China begin cleaning up after floods and landslides left 172 people dead.
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By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN  SHANGHAI, China - Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday ordered a formal probe into the massive algae growth that smothered one of China's biggest lakes, drawing high-level attention to growing threats facing the country's water bodies.
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Salvagers have begun removing oil from tanks on a freighter that broke apart last month off Alaska, spilling most of its estimated 442,000 gallons of fuel onto the shoreline.
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An oil spill added to the misery caused by widespread flooding Monday as thousands of evacuees in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas waited for water to recede from their homes.
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A senior Chinese official tells the BBC the country's environmental problems have reached crisis levels.
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The UK launches a huge clean-up in north Cornwall after devastating flash floods hit the area.
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A city in northeastern China has been forced to take emergency measures to deal with an outbreak of blue-green algae in a reservoir that provides water to the city, state media reported Monday.
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Sulfur dioxide spill sends 40 people to hospital in northeast China    SHENYANG, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- About 40 residents in a city in northeast China were hospitalized after a sulfur dioxide spill from a petrochemical company, local government sources said on Wednesday.
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BP Plc BP.L has cleaned up 900 of   the 1,000 barrels of gas oil that spilled from a BP-owned   pipeline at the Port of Long Beach, near Los Angeles, BP   spokesman Scott Dean said Wednesday.
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HONG KONG: China Petroleum &amp; Chemical Corp (Sinopec), Asia&#39;s largest oil refiner, confirmed yesterday that it would spend HK$3.846 billion (US$494 million) to privatize its subsidiary
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China announces plans to clean up a badly-polluted major lake after an algae bloom cut off water supplies.