Stories: Environment
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Japan as ground zero for no-waste lifestyle
Kamikatsu, Japan - Tucked almost imperceptibly into cedar-blanketed mountains an hour's winding drive from the nearest metropolis, Kamikatsu seems an unlikely spot for a ...
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China Spurring Illegal Timber Trade in Tanzania
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - China's growing hunger for timber may wipe out much of Tanzania's commercially valuable forests in two decades, scientists warn. The Asian powerhouse is ...
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African fishermen find way of conservation in the Koran
Pemba, Zanzibar - For years, Salim Haji was told by government officials and international groups that his methods of fishing were destroying the coral and weren't sustainable. But ...
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Coal mine mixed blessing for Indians
SIERRA MAESTRA, Venezuela -- Five years ago, students at the Jesus Carrera Bolivarian elementary school dragged desks past their playground to a dusty road used by trucks laden with ...
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As butterflies die, so goes a way of life
Butterflies in Mexico's Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve begin their northward migration in March by alighting from the trees and making their way toward the U.S. EL ROSARIO, ...
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The Middle Kingdom’s Dilemma
In January 2007, a geologist named Yong Yang set out from his home in China’s western Sichuan Province with five researchers, two sport utility vehicles, one set of clothes, ...
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China’s Pollution Revolution
In 2005, China was shaken by 51,000 pollution-triggered “public disturbances”—demonstrations or riots of a hundred or more people protesting the contamination of ...
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The Green Leap Forward
China is on its way to becoming not only the world’s largest economy, but also its largest polluter. Of the world’s twenty most polluted cities, sixteen are in China. ...
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In Delhi, doing as we do, not as we say
In the five years I worked as a reporter in India, I sat through many uncomfortable silences during interviews about Pakistani terrorists, the pervasive caste system and Indian ...
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Post-Crisis Rwanda: Protecting the Environment while Promoting Economic Recovery
Rwanda faces a range of environment-related challenges, as it continues to recover from genocide 15 years later. President Paul Kagame insists the country’s first full-blown ...
