Lists Chinese Version - Ecology and the Environment (Awesome Library) Provides sources of information on ecology and the environment. Provided in the Chinese language (Simplified font). 7-02 News -02-05-08 China Hit by Coldest Winter in 100 Years (MSNBC News) "Millions remained stranded in China on Monday ahead of the biggest holiday of the year as parts of the country suffered their coldest winter in a century." "Freezing weather has killed scores of people and left travelers stranded before the Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival — the only opportunity many people have to take a holiday all year." 02-08 -09-27-07 China and Others Running Out of Water (New York Times) "The North China Plain undoubtedly needs any water it can get. An economic powerhouse with more than 200 million residents, the region has limited rainfall and depends on groundwater for 60 percent of its water supply. Other countries have aquifers that are being drained to dangerously low levels, like Yemen, India, Mexico and the United States. But scientists say the aquifers below the North China Plain may be drained within 30 years." "'There’s no uncertainty,' said Richard Evans, a hydrologist who has worked in China for two decades and has served as a consultant to the World Bank and China’s Ministry of Water Resources. 'The rate of decline is very clear, very well documented. They will run out of groundwater if the current rate continues.' " 09-07 China Starts World's Largest Reforestation Effort (Guardian Unlimited) "After decades of logging that has left large swathes of the country looking like a desert wasteland, China embarked Tuesday on a $12 billion, 10-year program to plant 170,000 square miles of trees - an area roughly the size of California." "It is the largest reforestation project ever, forestry officials said, suggesting only an unprecedented effort can stop the expanding deserts, chronic droughts and deadly flooding blamed on wholesale logging." 5-02 Papers Algae Cause Severe Water Problem in China (BBC News) "China is to spend millions of dollars in an effort to clean up one of its largest lakes, which has been severely polluted by years of waste dumping." "An algae infestation earlier this year in Lake Tai, in Jiangsu province, led to a public panic and the suspension of water supplies from the lake." 10-07 Chinese Version - Sustainable Planet Development (Awesome Library) Provides an article on what needs to be done to preserve and protect the planet. Provided in the Chinese language (Simplified font). 7-02 Gigantic Dust Cloud Threatens Food Supplies (Independent News - Lean) "Gigantic dust clouds swirling over China are threatening the world's most populous country with the first-ever 'ecological meltdown', experts here warn." "As the crisis continues, Mr Brown predicts, the world will soon feel the pinch. So far China has compensated for its falling harvests by eating stocks, but soon it will have to buy massive amounts of grain on world markets. He warns: 'Grain prices could double – impoverishing more people in a shorter period of time than any event in history. It would create a world food economy dominated by scarcity rather than by surpluses, as has been the case over most of the last half a century.' " Independent News is a British newspaper. 1-03 Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes in China (MSNBC News) "No country in history has emerged as a major industrial power without creating a legacy of environmental damage that can take decades and big dollops of public wealth to undo." "But just as the speed and scale of China’s rise as an economic power have no clear parallel in history, so its pollution problem has shattered all precedents. Environmental degradation is now so severe, with such stark domestic and international repercussions, that pollution poses not only a major long-term burden on the Chinese public but also an acute political challenge to the ruling Communist Party. And it is not clear that China can rein in its own economic juggernaut." 08-07

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