Report: China had pollution deaths nixed
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Beijing persuaded the World Bank to cut from a report findings that pollution caused about 750,000 premature deaths in China each year, the Financial Times reported.
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By Liu Weifeng  A serious outbreak of algae in Anhui's Chaohu Lake is unlikely mainly due to imminent rains which dilute the concentration of the fast-spreading, foul-smelling plant, a senior environmental official said yesterday.
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China says its one-child policy has helped the fight against global warming by avoiding 300 million births, the equivalent of the population of the United States.
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LINFEN, China _ Here in one of the world's most polluted cities, where coal dust blackens apples still on the branch, something new is in the air.  It's not the brown smoke chugging out of coke plants and iron smelters day and night. The stranger is talk of an ultimatum.
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THE death toll in a coal mine explosion in central China has risen to 63, with 103 miners still missing. The Government said yesterday an underground fire and toxic fumes from the blast hampered rescue work.
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By Sun Xiaohua  Pollution caused losses of 511.8 billion yuan (US$64 billion) in 2004, which was 3.05 per cent of the 16 trillion yuan (US$2 trillion) gross domestic product (GDP) that year.
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Hundreds of people in northwestern China have been hospitalized with lead poisoning that was likely caused by pollution from a nearby smelter, state media and local officials said Wednesday.
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Accidents in China's notoriously dangerous coal mines killed nearly 3,800 people last year, state media reported Saturday Â a toll that is a marked improvement from previous years, but still leaves China's mines the world's deadliest.
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Safety standards are ignored in the pursuit of profits. In the first nine months of this year, 4,153 miners were killed. Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) - The death toll in a gas explosion in a Chinese coal mine
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Hundreds of millions of people fall ill every year or die prematurely from air and water pollution caused by China's breakneck economic growth, one of the world's leading economic thinktanks has concluded following an 18-month investigation.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 12 December: China is to launch its first nationwide investigation into the sources of environmental pollution at the beginning of 2008, according to a top environmental official.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 14 December: The Chinese national capital will endeavour to make all rivers and lakes within the sixth ring road of the city free of pollution by the year 2010.
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By Zheng Lifei and Zhang Kun  SHANGHAI: Five officials have been punished for their failure to stop companies from discharging untreated sewage into Taihu Lake, where a massive algae outbreak left the people of Wuxi without tap water for a week earlier this month.
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Increases in air pollution caused by cars, power plants and industry can be directly linked to higher death rates in U.S. cities, a study said on Tuesday.
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Air pollution in Beijing will not significantly improve before next year's Olympic Games, a UN report suggests.
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Chemical plant responsible for river pollution in east China shut down    HEFEI, June 22 (Xinhua) -- A chemical plant in east China's Anhui Province has been shut down after it discharged a toxic chemical into a river and sickened 61 villagers on Tuesday, the local government said.
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Child mortality among China's rural poor and its millions of migrants remains high despite overall improvements, state media quoted the World Health Organisation as saying Friday.