60% of Chinese Cities Suffer From Air Pollution: Report
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About 60 percent of Chinese cities still suffer from air pollution and have no centralized sewage treatment facilities, according to a report by the State environment watchdog.
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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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A four-day partial car ban reduced air pollution in Beijing by up to 20%, Chinese officials say.
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MODERN lifestyle is taking a heavy toll on the health of urban city dwellers in China. A study by the Chinese Red Cross of 16 Chinese cities, each with more than 1 million people, found that 75 per cent of
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By Li Fangchao  Experts and the public have expressed strong concern over the possible environmental impact of the construction of a massive chemical plant in Xiamen, East China's Fujian Province, Outlook Weekly reported yesterday.
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China needs to look back at environment before leap: official    BEIJING, Sept.
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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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North Korea's forests are depleted, its rivers and streams are filled with runoff from factories and a reliance on coal energy has created severe urban air pollution, the United Nations said Friday in its first report on the communist nation's environment.
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About 60 percent of adults in Beijing  are overweight, and obesity, once the preserve of the West, is  becoming more and more common among children, a city survey  shows.
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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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Air pollution has been wrongly blamed for worsening winter cases of asthma, say US researchers.
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China promised Monday to better control emissions of greenhouse gases, unveiling a national program to combat global warming, but rejected mandatory caps on emissions as unfair to countries still trying to catch up with the developed West.
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About a third of all Americans live in counties that do not meet standards for particles of pollution that cause thousands of premature deaths a year, the E.P.A. said.
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The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday identified 224 counties in 20 states that don't meet new clean air standards designed to protect against one of the tiniest but most harmful pollutants &#151; microscopic soot.
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The air in parts of London is so polluted that it exceeds European Union limits by up to 50 percent, according to a study.
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SEOUL The forests in North Korea are depleted, its rivers and streams are filled with runoff from factories and the country&#39;s reliance on coal energy has created severe urban air pollution, the United Nations said on Friday in its first report on the
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The number of children admitted to hospital with breathing problems rises considerably as smog levels soar, a Hong Kong study has revealed, heightening concerns as the city's air quality deteriorates.