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Barking Up the Right Tree		15 May 2002	Daily Grist
Barking Up the Right Tree Apparently spooked by a recent history of devastating floods and blinding sandstorms, China has unveiled a plan to plant trees on almost 200,000 square miles of land in an effort to reverse rampant deforestation. The plan, which Chinese officials call the largest conservation effort ever attempted, will cost an estimated $12 billion over 10 years and restore trees to an area larger than Ge ...
Topics: China, rivers and watersheds, wilderness (all these topics)

Bad Air Day		26 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Bad Air Day As if California didn't have enough of a smog problem all by itself, now it and other parts of the nation are suffering from air pollution blown in from China. Toxic pollutants from power plants, factories, and farms travel on wind currents across the ocean and mingle with our own less-than-perfect air to create an international smog blanket that is particularly acute on the West Coast. The smog is ass ...
Topics: air pollution, China, health, West Coast (all these topics)

True Grit		15 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
True Grit For the third year in a row, massive dust storms from China have blown into South Korea, closing schools, canceling flights, and creating a run on facemasks and respiratory medication. The storms are the result of severe desertification in China, where the Gobi Desert grew by 20,000 square miles from 1994 to 1999; the desertification stems from overfarming, overgrazing, and deforestation, among ...
Topics: air pollution, China, desertification, South Korea (all these topics)

Lonelier Little Sparrow		03 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Lonelier Little Sparrow Who notices the fall of the sparrow? For starters, scientists in China, where the once-common sparrow is on the brink of extinction. Around the northeastern port of Tianjin, the sparrow population has declined by an estimated 90 percent since Mao's days; in many parts of southern and central China, the birds have all but disappeared. The primary culprit is the nation's extravagant use of pesticides, and the ...
Topics: China, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

A River Doesn't Run Through It		04 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
A River Doesn't Run Through It The Yellow River is China's second-longest river and the cradle of a 4,000-year-old civilization; now, though, it's drying up and life along its banks is changing forever. Much of the water in the Yellow River is diverted to arid inner provinces for agricultural purposes, leaving areas downstream without a stream at all. For example, in Shandong, the last province before the river meets the Yellow ...
Topics: China, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Elephants: Never Forget		26 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Elephants: Never Forget A shocking 80 percent of wild elephants in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam fell victim to the ivory trade between 1988 and 2000, according to a report issued yesterday by Save the Elephants. The report blamed French, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, and Chinese tourists for driving ...
Topics: Cambodia, China, France, Germany, Indonesia, international government agencies, Italy, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Spain, Sri Lanka ... (all these topics)

Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire		16 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire Fires that rage in thousands of underground coal seams around the world are polluting the air and releasing millions of tons of carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas. Although coal fires occur naturally from spontaneous combustion, scientists say the frequency of such fires has risen as mining has exposed coal deposits to mo ...
Topics: air pollution, China, climate, energy, mining and drilling, ozone, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Litter Bugs Them		10 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Litter Bugs Them Most Hong Kong residents want their government to do a better job tackling environmental problems, according to a survey released over the weekend by Civic Exchange, a public policy think tank. More than 60 percent of the 960 respondents said issues such as pesticides in foods, contaminated seafood, and air and water pollution should be a top priority of the government. Fifty- ...
Topics: air pollution, China, Hong Kong, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Grain and Bear It		19 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Grain and Bear It New policies emerging in China could bode well for that poster child of protection efforts, the panda. In an article published last week in the journal Science, scientists from the World Wildlife Fund and Beijing University praised China's National Forest Conservation Program and its "Grain-to-Green" policy as likely to preserve habitat crucial to pa ...
Topics: China, food and agriculture, national forests, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Chinese Water Table Torture China's water table levels are dropping fast	Lester R. Brown	26 Oct 2001	Main Dish
If you aren't normally fascinated by China's agricultural problems, then an obscure report issued this summer on the state of the nation's water supply might have struck you as rather dry. But in this case, dry is precisely the problem: The water table under the North China Plain, which produces over half of China's wheat and a third of its corn, is falling at an alarming rate. A Chinese farme ...
Topics: China, food and agriculture (all these topics)

Flood Insurance		15 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Flood Insurance Chinese officials and the United Nations Environment Programme hope a $10 million plan to restore lakes and reduce logging and erosion will prevent a repeat of the disastrous 1998 flooding of the Yangtze River. Severe environmental degradation exacerbated the effects of heavy rainfalls that year, causing floods that killed upwards of 3,60 ...
Topics: China, environmental restoration, land degradation, rivers and watersheds, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

Blast Off! Momentum grows for greener ways of farming	Hal Clifford	28 Sep 2001	Main Dish
Rice as rice can be. In the humid hills of China's Yunnan province, rice farmers make their living from plots of land smaller than many American yards. High, cool, and wet, the country here is rich, yielding almost a thousand pounds of rice per acre. But farmers face a perennial scourge: rice blast. Rice blast is caused by a fungus that cuts off nutrients to the rice seed head and destroys crops. It thrives in r ...
Topics: China, food and agriculture, United States (all these topics)

See Ya Later ...		21 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
See Ya Later ... With fewer than 130 of them left in the wild, Chinese alligators may become the first crocodilian to become extinct in the wild, according to a study that will be published soon in the journal Biological Conservation. The alligators, native to lakes and wetlands in the lower Yangtze River Valley, have lost most of their habitat to fish ponds, rice paddies, and, increasingly, development. Not every single bit of hope ...
Topics: Asia, China, wildlife (all these topics)

Humpty Dumpty Sat on the Great Wall		15 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Humpty Dumpty Sat on the Great Wall Claims by China that it has significantly reduced its greenhouse gas emissions may be a bunch of hooey. A Japanese scientist funded by the World Bank found that coal production hasn't gone down nearly as much as represented by China. Other researchers assert that oil consumption is increasing in the country at a faster clip than reported. Although vehicle traffic in Chinese cities has been dou ...
Topics: China, energy, placemaking (all these topics)

Sum Dum Gai In the wake of Bonn, Bush's isolationism takes a page from China	Chris Colin	06 Aug 2001	Soapbox
After reading more than a dozen articles about the failure of the U.S. to engage in the recent Kyoto negotiations in Bonn, President Jiang Zemin of China angrily called President Bush yesterday. "Isolationism has always been our thing," Jiang reportedly said during the phone call. "This would be like your Seinfeld saying, 'Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Willis?'" Bush responded ...
Topics: China, politics, United States (all these topics)

Sum Dum Gai Satire		06 Aug 2001	Daily Grist

Topics: China, politics, United States (all these topics)

Another One Bites the Dust China's dust bowl is growing at an alarming rate	Lester R. Brown	29 May 2001	Main Dish
Last month, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration laboratory in Boulder, Colo., reported that a huge dust storm from northern China had reached the U.S. "blanketing areas from Canada to Arizona with a layer of dust." They reported that along the foothills of the Rockies, the mountains were obscured by the dust from China. This dust storm did not come ...
Topics: China, deforestation, land degradation, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

They Paved Pears and Rice and Put Up a Parking Lot Pavement is replacing the world's croplands	Lester R. Brown	01 Mar 2001	Main Dish
As the new century begins, the competition between cars and crops for cropland is intensifying. Until now, the paving over of cropland has occurred largely in industrial countries, home to four-fifths of the world's 520 million automobiles. But now, more and more farmland is being sacrificed in developing countries with hungry populations, calling into question the future ...
Topics: China, food and agriculture, India, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Trade Mandarins Want to Trade With Mandarins		09 Feb 2000	Daily Grist
Trade Mandarins Want to Trade With Mandarins U.S. corporations say they are raising environmental and labor standards in China, an attempt to head off criticism from unions, enviros, and human rights groups that want to keep China out of the World Trade Organization. A report by the Business Roundtable, a group of 200 corporate executives, highlights Eastman Chemical for having model safety and environment programs at ...
Topics: China, news, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Paper Chase	Josh Sevin	02 Feb 2000	Counter Culture
a 50 percent increase in worldwide paper consumption is expected by 2010 115 billion sheets of paper are used annually for personal computers 700 pounds of paper are consumed by the average American each year 10,000 trees are cut down annually in China to make holiday cards 3 cubic yards of landfill space can be saved by one ton of recycled paper 77 percent of paper is recycled in the Netherlands 67 percent of paper is recycled in Germany 52 percent of paper ...
Topics: China, Germany, green living, Japan, Netherlands, recycling, United States (all these topics)

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